Subversion-ing with Mac and Textdrive
I wanted to have a good repository of my code projects just in case something bad happens. Searching info here and there, I found the following pages useful for setting up my own repository in textdrive, and also installing and configuring the appropiate software on my mac.
So first thing was creating the repository, from the webmin administration tool (in textdrive, of course)
Then I found this cool page by Josh Buhler, explaining how to install all the svn tools for Mac Os X. Once all is instaled, I jumped to this textdrive forum thread on using subversion on TXD, which is a bit old but gave me the idea of how to refer to the svn paths. I thought it was something like svn://…. but it was http://… (no wonder why it gave me a timeout each time I tried to access it!).
With it, I could go to the terminal and make the first import and put the first version in my repository! I did it as it is explained in this good article at macdevcenter: Making the Jump to Subversion. Basically the most important step here is making a copy of your source code before importing to the repository, then import it, rename the first folder as Myfolder_beforeSVN, and check it out again in the MyFolder folder - so you get the contents again from the repository, but this time they are all marked like subversionized, and if you look carefully, you'll note their icon exhibits a little check box - to make clear they are under the subversion domain and they are up to date.
If you are a bit curious and run ls -la in your code folder, you'll note there's a little new (and hidden) folder called .svn which contains something like this:
drwxr-xr-x 12 sole sole 408 Jan 22 18:57 .drwxr-xr-x 119 sole sole 4046 Jan 22 18:57 ..-r--r--r-- 1 sole sole 118 Jan 22 18:57 README.txt-r--r--r-- 1 sole sole 78 Jan 22 18:57 dir-wcprops-r--r--r-- 1 sole sole 0 Jan 22 18:57 empty-file-r--r--r-- 1 sole sole 31254 Jan 22 18:57 entries-r--r--r-- 1 sole sole 2 Jan 22 18:57 formatdrwxr-xr-x 114 sole sole 3876 Jan 22 18:57 prop-basedrwxr-xr-x 114 sole sole 3876 Jan 22 18:57 propsdrwxr-xr-x 114 sole sole 3876 Jan 22 18:57 text-basedrwxr-xr-x 6 sole sole 204 Jan 22 18:57 tmpdrwxr-xr-x 114 sole sole 3876 Jan 22 18:57 wcprops
I think that it is where subversion holds all the info for the files and so on, like the CVS folders which are created in each folder when you use CVS.
And that's all! Now there's no excuse for not being a bit less messy when it comes to having backups and a clean code. Hope you're lucky with it all…
winden
20060122
sole, the most effective way i know for keeping backups is to hand off a full copy of your sources to some friends at some other city… or country ;)
sole
20060122
nahhh it won't work! I have lots of files and I hate to maintain a mental list of what I have modified and what not and why…
winden
20060123
copy the whole HD then ;) the easy way is to get a new bigger HD, copy all onto the new and then send give the old one to a friend so that he hides it somewhere at his home. voilá, instant off-site backup!
sole
20060123
noooooooooo! something bad is not "a bomb over my computer", it is me changing code and not remembering why, leaving it in an unuseful state. Or as I did past week… overwriting with an old version of a page :-(
sin
20060124
What do I think? I think SVN rocks, enough said! Been using it for ages, never failed me, saved my arse in more than 100 occassions. :)