Looking into using Subversion
Hi All I have been exploring the Subversion web site, also check out the High-Speed Tutorial. But stilling trying to work out if Subversion will be useful for us. We are developing a PHP Website hosted on our own Linux Server (a development server). We are also using Tomcat to host our website, and handle our Java Web Services for the website. The Developers are using Windows PC to develop, currently using, NetBeans for PHP development. And Eclipse for the Java Web services. The question is, can all the developers, work with the same working copy, which will be on the Linux server? Enjoy Devlyn - This e-mail is subject to the Columbus Stainless [Pty] Ltd Email Legal Notices available at: http://www.columbus.co.za/EmailLegalNotice.htm. - This e-mail message has been scanned for Viruses and Content and cleared by MailMarshal -
Re: Looking into using Subversion
Thank for your response Nico. We what to debug from our development server. Not sure if there maybe is away to develop on the local PC, and check in the file into the repository (which will be on the Linux Server) which will copy it to the Tomcat's publish folder on the server? From: Nico Kadel-Garcia To: vanderwalt.dev...@columbus.co.za Cc: Subversion Date: 2013/11/18 02:11 PM Subject:Re: Looking into using Subversion They can, in theory, but it's awkward. Two people editing the same file, at the same time are really likely to run into conflicts or accidentally mix their changes into the same commit. So I don't recommend it. Why can't they work on their own copies, on their own Tomcat servers, with tuned local Tomcat configs, and merge their changes in their own branches to a single "master" that is what lives on the website? On Mon, Nov 18, 2013 at 4:09 AM, wrote: > Hi All > > I have been exploring the Subversion web site, also check out the High-Speed > Tutorial. But stilling trying to work out if Subversion will be useful for > us. > > We are developing a PHP Website hosted on our own Linux Server (a > development server). > We are also using Tomcat to host our website, and handle our Java Web > Services for the > website. > > The Developers are using Windows PC to develop, currently using, NetBeans > for PHP > development. And Eclipse for the Java Web services. > > The question is, can all the developers, work with the same working copy, > which will be > on the Linux server? > > Enjoy > Devlyn > > This e-mail is subject to the Columbus Stainless [Pty] Ltd Email Legal > Notices available at: http://www.columbus.co.za/EmailLegalNotice.htm. > > This e-mail message has been scanned for Viruses and Content and cleared by > MailMarshal > - This e-mail is subject to the Columbus Stainless [Pty] Ltd Email Legal Notices available at: http://www.columbus.co.za/EmailLegalNotice.htm. - This e-mail message has been scanned for Viruses and Content and cleared by MailMarshal -
Re: Looking into using Subversion
Thank you all, Chris Bob, Andrew, Ben. Bob, the Server I am taking about here is our development, not production server so it will be fine. Chris, Andrew, and Ben thank you for given me 3 solutions to explore. I think I am going to give Subversion try, only thing I am not too keen about is the command line interface. Our developers here would prefer a GUI client, any good ones you can suggest? From: Ben Reser To: Chris Shelton , vanderwalt.dev...@columbus.co.za Cc: Nico Kadel-Garcia , Subversion Date: 2013/11/19 06:27 AM Subject:Re: Looking into using Subversion On 11/18/13 7:54 AM, Chris Shelton wrote: > I would suggest looking at the SVN::Notify::Mirror perl module: > http://search.cpan.org/~jpeacock/SVN-Notify-Mirror-0.040/lib/SVN/Notify/Mirror.pm > > It includes a Perl script that is intended for using within a > post-commit hook script to perform updates of a working copy after > each commit. I have been using it for automated deployment of code > changes to a test web server for a few years now with generally > reliable results. If you want to do this type of thing I'd recommend looking at svnwcsub and the svn pubsub setup. It has the advantage of allowing this without requiring the repository server have access to the machines you are updating. Since the server simply provides a mechanism for the client machines to subscribe and watch for updates. This was introduced along with 1.8.0. Many ASF websites including Subversion's are stored in SVN and automatically updated using this technique. There is a very basic install instructions here: https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/subversion/branches/1.8.x/tools/server-side/svnpubsub/README.txt Note that this same directory is tools/server-side/svnpubsub in the tarball. - This e-mail is subject to the Columbus Stainless [Pty] Ltd Email Legal Notices available at: http://www.columbus.co.za/EmailLegalNotice.htm. - This e-mail message has been scanned for Viruses and Content and cleared by MailMarshal -
RE: Looking into using Subversion
Thanks again Andrew, I did try TorstiseSVN today, and it working great for me. Enjoy Devlyn From: Andrew Reedick To: "vanderwalt.dev...@columbus.co.za" , Ben Reser Cc: Chris Shelton , Nico Kadel-Garcia , Subversion , "bob.arc...@amsi.com" Date: 2013/11/19 04:15 PM Subject:RE: Looking into using Subversion > From: vanderwalt.dev...@columbus.co.za [ mailto:vanderwalt.dev...@columbus.co.za] > Sent: Tuesday, November 19, 2013 1:47 AM > To: Ben Reser > Cc: Chris Shelton; Nico Kadel-Garcia; Subversion; bob.arc...@amsi.com; Andrew Reedick > Subject: Re: Looking into using Subversion > > Thank you all, Chris Bob, Andrew, Ben. > > Bob, the Server I am taking about here is our development, not > production server so it will be fine. > > Chris, Andrew, and Ben thank you for given me 3 solutions to explore. > > I think I am going to give Subversion try, only thing I am not too keen > about is the command line interface. Our developers here would > prefer a GUI client, any good ones you can suggest? The important thing is to use a 1.8.x client for the improved merging, i.e. not having to use the --reintegrate switch with 'svn merge' anymore. TorstiseSVN on Windows is great. Subclipse supports 1.8.x and works. However, last I checked, NetBeans requires you to set the subversion plugin to use the 1.8.x CLI instead of javahl or svnkit (which are limited to 1.7.) Again, last I checked, non-windows GUI clients also have the problem of being stuck at 1.7.x. - This e-mail is subject to the Columbus Stainless [Pty] Ltd Email Legal Notices available at: http://www.columbus.co.za/EmailLegalNotice.htm. - This e-mail message has been scanned for Viruses and Content and cleared by MailMarshal -
