Re: Question about subversion

On Thu, Jun 27, 2013 at 7:06 AM, Nico Kadel-Garcia <nkadel_at_gmail.com> wrote:

>>> http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.7/svn.advanced.props.special.ignore.html
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>> 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 ?
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>> 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.....

Another thing to consider is that you may later wish to add automated
build/CI tools like Jenkins which will do unattended builds for you,
possibly in different environments. So it is good to plan for that
from the start, providing a script or batch file that does all the
steps needed to configure for any local differences and perform the
build as part of the project.

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   Les Mikesell
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