How To Clean Subversion Directories

October 25th, 2006 Often you have files in your subversion directiory which you do not want to commit / check-in. Such files could be compiled files, intermediate files used for data processing etc.

January 15th, 2007 I wanted a seamless procedure to update web sites and web applications without compromising security. The development server is under a firewall and so is the production server.

June 23rd, 2007 In directories under subversion there may be files which you do not want to add to subversion. Normally such files would show in subversion status (svn stat) with ? in front of them.

August 14th, 2007 I discovered a really cool way to use Subversion, my favorite version control system - automatic versioning / commit on save. Essentially with this simple tweak you can use subversioned files like you would use any ordinary files.

January 13th, 2007 Subversion is a free open source source code management system (SCM) like CVS, Perforce, ClearCase etc. In this simple 5 minutes guide you will know about some key commands to quickly get started with subversion from ground zero.

September 23rd, 2006 This is a simple commandline Java utility which I wrote down in under 5 minutes to help in checking-in (svn commit) over 500 files which were modified but the dates weren't changed due to an error in our settings. So subversion failed to recognize it.

April 30th, 2009 Subversion is a highly popular version control system used worldwide. It succeeds CVS and aims to rectify its shortcomings.

June 15th, 2006 How can you recursively delete files and directories in windows? You can select them in explorer (in windows) and delete it, right? The problem with the explorer approach is that if one or more files and / or directories cannot be deleted then the whole process fails. Try cleaning your Local Settings\temp directory to see an example.

October 8th, 2007 PmWiki is a popular wiki software which uses the file system to store wiki pages. We use for our intranet and to document our processes and systems.

June 20th, 2007 I was contacted by ProjectLocker to review their new service: Subversion Analytics. I took the service through the paces using their demo account.

November 4th, 2005 Subversion is a popular version control software and replacement for CVS, the grand-daddy of all version control software which is still widely used in open source community. Recently I had the necessity to invoke Subversion commands like checkout from Ant, a popular java based build software which replaces make tool.

July 26th, 2006 The following command will recursively search for ant build file in the directories and then its parent directories, till it finds it; and then executes it. In short you can use this command to manage your project from any subdirectory of the project.

May 2nd, 2007 I was recently introduced to Mercurial, a new distributed version control system people are talking about. Version control systems are central to any development team and a choice shouldn't be made lightly as you will often find your development process limited by the limitations of the system.

January 15th, 2007 There are 3 options to run rsync server on windows, explained below with pros and cons and instructions. Using DeltaCopy.

October 25th, 2006 Revision number of a file is an important information. Two most common uses are in serialization and in making version specific database upgrades for an application.