[pmwiki-users] Re: Subversion & existing installation

H. Fox haganfox at users.sourceforge.net
Thu Dec 1 18:42:29 CST 2005


On 12/1/05, chr at home.se <chr at home.se> wrote:
> On Thu, 1 Dec 2005, Patrick R. Michaud wrote:
>
> > On Thu, Dec 01, 2005 at 12:08:29PM -0600, Jon Haupt wrote:
> > > On 12/1/05, Patrick R. Michaud <pmichaud at pobox.com> wrote:
> > > > On Thu, Dec 01, 2005 at 09:49:13AM -0600, Jon Haupt wrote:
> > > > >    Q: I have an existing installation and I want to move over
> > > > >    to using SVN. What's the best way of getting that going?
> > > >
> > > > However, it appears you can do almost the same steps as for a normal
> > > > upgrade.  Here's what I just tried on my system ... but please be
> > > > sure to have a backup copy of your site somewhere, first!
> > > > ...
> > > I tried this on two separate installations, one a standalone, and the
> > > other a wikifarm, and both worked perfectly using the method described
> > > above.
> >
> > Excellent!  I've now added these instructions to the PmWiki.Subversion
> > page on pmwiki.org.
>
> Good thinking!
>
> For those who are daring, this command could be useful:
>
>         find . -type d -name CVS -exec rm {} -rf \;
>
> which finds all directories named CVS and removes them. Similarly:
>
>         find . -name .cvsignore -exec rm {} \;

How about

        find . -type d -name CVS -exec rm {} -rfi \;

and

        find . -name .cvsignore -exec rm {} -i \;

respectively?  The -i (for interactive) will mitigate the danger substantially.

Hagan

> Not sure if we should add it to the page though... might be dangerous :-)
>
>
> However, there is a minor annoyance right now when it comes to checking
> the status of the files. Since I have a few extra directories [*], I
> modified svn:ignore to ignore these, but now I get the following annoying
> status result:
>
>         svn status
>          M     .
>          M     local
>
> I assume this is because svn:ignore is a versioned property... any clues
> on how to get svn to not report '.' and 'local' as modified?  (Adding '.'
> to 'svn:ignore' doesn't strike me as a brilliant idea...:-)
>
> /C
>
> [*] The extra directories are there because it's a farm installation. As
> for local/, that's because I added 'farmmap.txt'.
>
> --
> Christian Ridderström, +46-8-768 39 44               http://www.md.kth.se/~chr
>
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