Hi all,
I have as part of a build process a requirement to check the results of
a build (jars, wars etc) into a staging repository (i.e. not the same
repository as the source code) - our deployment tool will then pull a
particular revision of these files from the staging repository to deploy
to test and live networks.
As the result of the build is not under svn control as far as the source
repository is concerned, I'd ideally like to do an "svn import" of the
result into a predefined location in the staging repository, along with
various bits of build related meta-data in the comment. This would be
performed on a reasonably regular basis, when a particular build is
deemed suitable for test/release. It's not important for the revision
number of the staging repository to match that of the source repositories.
However, "svn import" baulks if the target file exists in the repository
being imported to - so this only works the first time. I need something
that will allow me to "put this arbitrary file at this location in the
repository, creating a new revision if it already exists".
I have seen a couple of posts regarding an extension to "svn import" of
an "--overwrite" parameter to do precisely this; from what I see this
hasn't been implemented (e.g.
http://svn.haxx.se/users/archive-2003-12/0317.shtml ).
The only way I see to do this is have the build system maintain a WC of
the staging repository, copy the results files to it and perform commits
- which in this case is a bit messy when it seems a single issue of an
"svn import" command is 99% there for what I need.
Is the working copy route the only way to go, or have I missed something
in the docs? Whilst I appreciate it's not a normal way of using SVN, I'd
appreciate any suggestions.
(svn 1.4.6)
Cheers,
Andy
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