Hi Ryan,
Ryan Schmidt wrote:
> Um... well...
>
> I see no reason to throw out the repository you now have. If its layout
> isn't the way you want it, you can easily move things around within the
> repository to achieve your desired layout. And the repository history
> will track all that so you'll have a record of it later, which is always
> a good thing.
>
> Unless you have things in multiple repositories. Since it sounds like
> this is a single project, it probably makes more sense to put it in a
> single repository. If we find it's in multiple repositories, then you may
> want to "svnadmin dump" things out of the secondary repositories and
> "svnadmin load" them into whatever you decide is the main repository.
>
> First you need to find out how many repositories you have and where they
> are.
> Or possibly when you said "Explorer" you meant Windows Explorer,
Yes I meant Windows Explorer. Sorry for the lack of clarity.
> and you're just referring to the way in which TortoiseSVN integrates with
> Windows Explorer.
I guess that's what's going on. When I use Windows Explorer to copy a
directory that SVN/TortiseSVN 'knows about', the copy has the TortiseSVN
marking just like the original.
> If so, then that doesn't tell us anything about how your repository is
> served or where it is. The start of the URL will tell us though. What's
> the URL through which you access your repository? Does it start with
> file:///? If so, that points directly to the repository.
The repository(ies) is (are) on my local disk. I've only accessed it/them
through TortiseSVN.
> If you can't remember your repository URL, use "svn info" on your working
> copy.
And it turns out I haven't been working with working copies. I've been
editing the files in the repository directory(ies) and then committing them.
Told you it was fubar ;-p
> I believe the equivalent using TortoiseSVN would be to show the Properties
> window in Windows Explorer, then click the TortoiseSVN tab.
The Properties dialog has a Subversion tab. To illustrate using two of the
source files: The actor.rb (model) file shows a URL of
file:///C:/svnrepos/emrec-base/trunk/app/models/actor.rb and tells me it's
at Revision 47. The actor_controller file shows a URL of
file:///C:/svnrepos/emrec-base/trunk/app/controllers/actor_controller.rb and
tells me it's at Revision 46. An associated view file shows
file:///C:/svnrepos/emrec-base/trunk/app/views/actor/edit_patient.rhtml and
is at Revision 56.
Then there's the allergy views... They don't show a Subversion tab in the
Properties dialog. So I used Add in TortiseSVN which it appears to do by
putting a little blue '+' on the file icon. Then I tried SVN commit which
yields...
Adding: InstantRails-1.5\rails_apps\emrec-base\app\views\allergy\edit.rhtml
Error: Commit failed (details follow):
Error: File already exists: filesystem 'C:/svnrepos/db', transaction '77-1',
path '/emrec-base/trunk/app/views/allergy/edit.rhtml'
> There's no reason to uninstall the Subversion software.
Might it, given the depth of the hole I've so obvoiusly dug myself into, not
be the quickest way out?
> It sounds like you may not have understood Subversion when you started 6
> months ago,
You have a true gift for understatement. Thanks for being so gentle ;-)
> and would now like to do it right.
Oh yes.
> Have you read the book? If not, I highly recommend it, as it explains
> everything. http://svnbook.org/ .
Yesterday I picked up the copy of "Pragmatic Version Control" that I bought
six months ago and have since been reading and scratching my head, trying to
figure out how to start over. Does the svnbook cover this ground (i.e., how
to un-fubar your repository)? Given what you can tell from the above, do
you have any suggestions on the easiest route I can take to get this
straightened out?
Thanks much,
Bill
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Received on Tue Apr 3 23:44:31 2007