I was only pointing out that we can not do it using regular subversion
command line or any clients (that I have used). This is specific to TMate
Soft's tool. That said, thanks for pointing it out. I didn't know that
SVNKit could do this.
Thanks,
-Hari
On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 6:12 AM, Gowri C P <gowricp_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Hari,
>
> You don't need working copies to add files. New files are not yet part of
> the repository and adding them is not a problem. You apparently can do a
> delta with a local copy and the HEAD version of a file and just apply the
> delta like so:
>
>
> http://www.nabble.com/need-solution-for-an-unusual-use-case-td17700081.html#a17755093
>
> Regards,
> Gowri
>
>
> On Mon, Jun 9, 2008 at 4:20 PM, Hari Kodungallur <hkodungallur_at_gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Jun 6, 2008 at 11:26 AM, Gowri <gowricp_at_gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> I suppose this is not at all a common problem and I am not sure how to
>>> solve this but here's what I do:
>>>
>>> I use the java library from tmatesoft to do a commit of some files
>>> from a tool that I'm writing. basically, the user uses this tool to
>>> trigger a simulation which writes some files to a directory. Now, the
>>> user expects the tool to add all of these files to SVN. If the files
>>> are modified (by hand or by changing some parameters on teh GUI whose
>>> values go into some files) then the user would like to commit them
>>> again by using this tool.
>>>
>>> My problem is:
>>> Adding files for the first time is easy enough but how do I update
>>> files later (because the users do not check out these output files and
>>> hence we do not have a concept of working copies)
>>>
>>> I'd really appreciate all the help I can get.
>>>
>>>
>>
>> I am not sure I understand the question clearly. Without the concept of
>> working copies, how do you add the files [Unless you are importing them]?
>> You need working copies even to add files. That said, I do not know how the
>> tool that you mention works. Did you check with tmatesoft?
>>
>> Regards,
>> -Hari
>>
>
>
Received on 2008-06-11 01:56:47 CEST