[Gambas-user] Using SVN in gambas question

[Benoît Minisini]

> On Wednesday 23 September 2009 21:36:37 you wrote:
> > I have always created the project without the subversion option enabled.
> > The added the project to the svn repo.
> > after that, then you open the project with the gambas ide you can commit
> > and update using the gui. Always worked for me
> 
> Do you mean you did this
> 1) A SVN is setup somewhere you want to access
> 2) You download that svn manually from a terminal to your machine
> 3) You then point gambas to that directory
> 4) Gambas then 'knows' this is an svn project and treats it accordingly?
> 
> Also, I 've been finding that gambas somehow corrupts the svn under some
> circumstances - it seems to be around a couple of scenarios  that I havn't
> quite defined.One seems to be when I've added a new directory from within
> gambas and then deleted it within the same session without a commit in
> between. Also re-naming files seems to be a problem.

As far as I could test, renaming files is not a problem, but renaming a 
directory is.

To rename a directory, svn copies the old one to the new one, and deletes the 
old one. But it will actually delete the old one at the next commit. So you 
can't rename the new directory back to its old name.

> 
> Another question I thought one could copy files from outside ones svn into
>  the svn tree and that svn would cope with this.

You were wrong. svn deals with files only if you tell him with "svn add".

> 
> Also that I could delete files externally then do an update and svn would
> replace them - apparently not so with the missing files as described below.

It depends. If you delete a file without using "svn remove", then you can use 
"svn update" or, faster, "svn revert" to get the file back.

> 
> My svn is in a real mess at the moment and I can't commit anything even on
>  the command line as I get this sequence:
> 
> richard ~/coding/trunk  $  svn update
> At revision 185.
> richard ~/coding/trunk  $  svn commit -m "help files"
> svn: Commit failed (details follow):
> svn: Directory '/home/richard/coding/trunk/help/introduction/.svn'
>  containing working copy admin area is missing
> richard ~/coding/trunk  $
> 
> Not sure how to untangle this as there are all sorts of hidden files
>  involved.
> 
> HELP!!!! anyone!!!
> 
> thanks
> 
> Richard
> 

I suggest that you checkout your project in a new directory, copy your changes 
from the old ones (by using svn commands of course), and then commit from the 
new one. Then you will use it definitely, and can delete the old directory.

Regards,

-- 
Benoît Minisini