On Thu, Jun 27, 2013 at 6:50 AM, Cooke, Mark <mark.cooke_at_siemens.com> wrote:
> [Please post inline, it makes it easier to follow...]
>
>> -------- Message original --------
>> Sujet: Re: Question about subversion
>> De : Cooke, Mark <mark.cooke_at_siemens.com>
>> Pour : Marc Davenne <marc.davenne_at_cramif.cnamts.fr>, Andrew Reedick
>> <Andrew.Reedick_at_cbeyond.net>
>> Copie à : "users_at_subversion.apache.org" <users_at_subversion.apache.org>
>> Date : 27/06/2013 11:40
>>
>> >> -----Original Message-----
>> >> From: Marc Davenne [mailto:marc.davenne_at_cramif.cnamts.fr]
>> >> Sent: 27 June 2013 10:25
>> >> To: Andrew Reedick
>> >> Cc: users_at_subversion.apache.org
>> >> Subject: Re: Question about subversion
>> >>
>> >> Thank you for your answers... all of you
>> >>
>> >> @Andrew
>> >> Thank you, the answers you gave were exactly what I thought
>> >> about (I was
>> >> a little bit too general when I asked the question)
>> >>
>> >> - concerning answer number 2 (specific files)
>> >> Let's say I have a parameter file with paths for my dev
>> environement.
>> >> Typically I would not put it on svn because everybody has different
>> >> ones... but how to I version the param file (without it the
>> >> application does not work)
>> >
>> > I think it was BOb who gave an answer for that one... What
>> I do is to svn:ignore the file itself, then check in a
>> default version with a different filename (e.g. extra `.tmpl`
>> extension) and provide some sort of `initialisation` script
>> that can be used on fresh checkout to copy the template
>> file(s) to the right name(s) for use.
>> >
>> > For exmaple, I have several .ini files to target different
>> servers (development, test, site1, site2 etc) all checked in
>> with the actual .ini file name ignored. I then copy the
>> right one for what I want to the right name. The different
>> ini fils are then versioned in the repo.
>> >
>> > ~ mark c
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Marc Davenne [mailto:marc.davenne_at_cramif.cnamts.fr]
>> Sent: 27 June 2013 11:15
>> To: Cooke, Mark
>> Cc: Andrew Reedick; users_at_subversion.apache.org
>> Subject: Re: Question about subversion
>>
>> I am not sure I understand it very well. When you say it is ignored,
>> does it mean it is on svn ?
>
> The subversion book explains svn:ignore better than I will:-
>
> http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.7/svn.advanced.props.special.ignore.html
>
> In summary: this is a way to tell svn to ignore a file (or filename pattern) when looking for files to check-in. Hence the file itself is not in the repo, but your template version(s) is (are).
>
>> And what is this script that would trigger on checkout ?
>
> That would be (for me, on windows) a simple batch file (that is also checked in) that the user knows to run.
Every software building system has some common tools for this. GNU
make uses "autoconf" and the resulting ./configure file. X11 used to
use "xmkmf" and the "Imakefile". Maven, well, maven has it's own
ideas.....
Received on 2013-06-27 14:07:16 CEST