Re: Correct Procedure.

On Monday 21 May 2007 12:01, Mark Coleman wrote:
> I am currently working with a build system. At the end of building the
> various components we have, I check in all the build output to an svn
> repository.
>
>
> We are still in a development stage and as such many files are added and
> taken from the build output. Currently I have a short script to 'svn
> add' everything in the working directory which shows up with a '?'
> during an 'svn stat'.
>
>
> Now I would like to have the reverse functionality so that when files
> that are in the repository do not show up in the working copy at the end
> of the build, they are 'svn remove'd.

In general, I find that use questionable. I also check in the compiled
binaries, but only when making a release, not during development. The reason
is that the difference between two revision is cluttered with changes of
generated files while the only relevant parts are the source files. Also,
generated objectfiles can't be merged, so a concurrent development model is
rather cumbersome like this. I don't know your environment, so YMMV.

> Is there a recommended way to achieve this?

There is a tool called svn_load_dirs.pl (part of Subversion itself), which can
sync a repository URL with an (unversioned) directory, including modifying,
adding, deleting and moving files. IIRC, it also has an option to use an
existing working copy. Either this or some self-rolled script that parses the
output of 'svn st' would do.

There are existing requests to add a feature to Subversion that makes it treat
a directory as a whole, meaning that adding and deleting files automatically
adds and deletes them for subversion, but this is not implemented currently.

cheers

Uli

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