Show: All | News Items | Blog Posts
Removing a file from remote SVN repo without deleting your local copy
Feb 9, 2009 by Travis
I've been guilty of accidentally adding a local configuration file into Subversion in the past. At best it will only cause another user's project or file to be conflicted or throw an error. At worst it will keep the remote project from updating as expected (causing some interesting server problems). I've often wondered if there were a way to remove the file from the ...
Excluding Files from a Subversion Repository with svn:ignore
Jan 25, 2009 by Travis
Sometimes, you need to exclude certain files or folders from your Subversion repository. This is usually just as simple as not adding the files via svn add. But, those files and folders still show up when you run svn status as non-tracked files. This may be fine for most people, but what if you want to mark those files as excluded and never see them again (at least via ...
Batch add/remove files to Subversion
Jan 13, 2009 by Travis
Recently, I was thinking how great it would be to have some script that I could run for a project to automagically add all new files (or remove all deleted files) with subversion. I know, I know, git is the new hotness, so why am I still using subversion? Well, all of our projects here at Plexus are tracked with subversion, and it would be more trouble than it's worth t...
Jun 23, 2008 by Travis
Git is "an open source version control system designed to handle very large projects with speed and efficiency." It's also well-suited for smaller repositories and is very popular in the open source community because of its ability for many people to work on the same project. Git is much faster than most other, more common version control systems. We're still runni...
How to Remove External Rails Plugins from your Application
Jan 24, 2008 by Adam
There isn't a single command in subversion to remove external plugins from your application so I figured I would post this to help the next person save 10 minutes of reading docs. Make sure you are in the root of your app and do: svn propedit svn:externals vendor/plugins Just delete the line(s) of the plugins you no longer want. If you get the following erro...
Plexus builds custom, rich internet applications on the Ruby on Rails web application framework.
Plexus provides ProductCart Shopping Cart for e-commerce web sites.
