Preserve timestamps while creating tag with SVN copy

2013-10-28 Thread Steve Cohen
I would like to be able to create a tag using the SVN copy command so that the timestamps on the files in the destination are the same as those in the source. Is this possible?

differencing only header files

2011-07-22 Thread Steve Cohen
Is there an easy way to restrict svn diff operation to files of a certain extension (say .h)? A quick glance at the manual suggested nothing to me.

Re: SVN always thinks a few certain files need to be merged

2011-03-24 Thread Steve Cohen
On 03/24/2011 05:11 PM, Bob Archer wrote: On 03/24/2011 05:01 PM, Bob Archer wrote: On 03/23/2011 08:02 PM, David Huang wrote: On Mar 23, 2011, at 7:52 PM, Pat Farrell wrote: On 03/23/2011 08:34 PM, Konstantin Kolinko wrote: You are not giving much specifics, so how can people know what

Re: SVN always thinks a few certain files need to be merged

2011-03-24 Thread Steve Cohen
On 03/24/2011 05:01 PM, Bob Archer wrote: On 03/23/2011 08:02 PM, David Huang wrote: On Mar 23, 2011, at 7:52 PM, Pat Farrell wrote: On 03/23/2011 08:34 PM, Konstantin Kolinko wrote: You are not giving much specifics, so how can people know what is going on in your case? Specifics for c

Re: SVN always thinks a few certain files need to be merged

2011-03-24 Thread Steve Cohen
On 03/23/2011 08:09 PM, Pat Farrell wrote: On 03/23/2011 09:02 PM, David Huang wrote: If you're sure that the mergeinfo is bogus, why not just delete it? e.g., svn propdel svn:mergeinfo fnfapp/src/java/com/fnfbook/bean/FilterListBase.java I'm sure. I'll try that. I have not tried it before,

Re: SVN always thinks a few certain files need to be merged

2011-03-24 Thread Steve Cohen
On 03/23/2011 08:02 PM, David Huang wrote: On Mar 23, 2011, at 7:52 PM, Pat Farrell wrote: On 03/23/2011 08:34 PM, Konstantin Kolinko wrote: You are not giving much specifics, so how can people know what is going on in your case? Specifics for complete 100% reproducable problem: do svn up

Re: SVN always thinks a few certain files need to be merged

2011-03-23 Thread Steve Cohen
On 03/23/2011 05:36 PM, Pat Farrell wrote: Since then, these files are picked up for properties merges whenever I merge their project even though they haven't really changed in years. How can I FIX this merge info so I stop being bothered by them. Wouldn't "svn revert filename" clear this? Or d

SVN always thinks a few certain files need to be merged

2011-03-23 Thread Steve Cohen
Somewhere back in the distant past, I was a bad bad boy and did something that SVN didn't like to get some merge to work. This happened about two years ago. Since then, these files are picked up for properties merges whenever I merge their project even though they haven't really changed in ye

Understanding merging

2011-03-08 Thread Steve Cohen
I work with a very senior colleague who has never always resisted version control and would much rather do without it, but he is forced to go along and I am the whipping boy whenever something goes wrong. He poses a general but simple question that I find myself unable to give a simple answer

Understanding merging

2011-03-08 Thread Steve Cohen
I work with a very senior colleague who has never always resisted version control and would much rather do without it, but he is forced to go along and I am the whipping boy whenever something goes wrong. He poses a general but simple question that I find myself unable to give a simple answer

Re: Letters at beginnings of columns of svn output

2011-01-20 Thread Steve Cohen
On 01/20/2011 05:19 AM, Stephen Butler wrote: A 'C' in the third column indicates a tree conflict, while a 'C' in Thanks, Stephen. While we're on the subject, can you tell me succinctly what is the exact definition of a "tree conflict"? This used to drive me nuts when I used the subclip

Re: Letters at beginnings of columns of svn output

2011-01-20 Thread Steve Cohen
On 01/20/2011 04:28 AM, JamieEchlin wrote: Stephen Butler wrote: On the command line, try svn help update (for instance). It's also in the SVN Book's command reference chapter, under the given 'svn' subcommand: There is docn for the letters for status and for update, but I haven't f

Letters at beginnings of columns of svn output

2011-01-19 Thread Steve Cohen
Where is this documented? I sometimes see letters I don't know, such as "G", what is that for - and these outputs may differ from command to command. Also the column in which a letter appears is significant. Can someone please point me to a document where this is explained? It's not in the

Re: svn:ignore with recursive and non-recursive patterns

2010-12-02 Thread Steve Cohen
On 12/02/2010 10:23 AM, Steve Cohen wrote: On 12/01/2010 12:29 PM, Steve Cohen wrote: I have a need to define a number of svn:ignore patterns in my project. Some are specific directories somewhere in my project tree. Others are particular file types created by a build process such as *.o which

Re: Unable to lock error: what is going on here?

2010-12-02 Thread Steve Cohen
On 12/02/2010 05:24 PM, Bob Archer wrote: On 12/02/2010 08:39 AM, Bob Archer wrote: $ svn update svn: Unable to lock 'utscmd' $ svn propget svn:ignore utspkg_src utscmd utslib utsbin utstool utscmd is a subdirectory of the current working directory. It is included in svn:ignore. Why is svn

Re: Unable to lock error: what is going on here?

2010-12-02 Thread Steve Cohen
On 12/02/2010 08:39 AM, Bob Archer wrote: $ svn update svn: Unable to lock 'utscmd' $ svn propget svn:ignore utspkg_src utscmd utslib utsbin utstool utscmd is a subdirectory of the current working directory. It is included in svn:ignore. Why is svn even trying to lock this directory? The seq

Re: svn:ignore with recursive and non-recursive patterns

2010-12-02 Thread Steve Cohen
On 12/01/2010 12:29 PM, Steve Cohen wrote: I have a need to define a number of svn:ignore patterns in my project. Some are specific directories somewhere in my project tree. Others are particular file types created by a build process such as *.o which may be found in any number of directories

Re: svn:ignore with recursive and non-recursive patterns

2010-12-02 Thread Steve Cohen
:ignore). Is there any way of achieving this? There doesn't appear to be one. Yet without it, svn:ignore is useless, or at least too cumbersome to be used well. Steve Cohen Does svn propset svn:ignore accept the **/filename idiom as a legitimate pattern indicating recursion or are you s

Re: pattern for specifying svn:ignore for files without extension

2010-12-01 Thread Steve Cohen
On 12/01/2010 03:33 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote: On Dec 1, 2010, at 15:19, Steve Cohen wrote: It seems to me that svn --recursive propset svn:ignore xyz is basically just syntactic sugar for manually going through issuing svn propset svn:ignore xyz on every node of the directory

Re: pattern for specifying svn:ignore for files without extension

2010-12-01 Thread Steve Cohen
On 12/01/2010 02:08 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote: Redirecting this discussion back to the mailing list.. On Dec 1, 2010, at 14:05, Steve Cohen wrote: On 12/01/2010 01:38 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote: Can you have the build process write its files to a different directory (a "build" direc

pattern for specifying svn:ignore for files without extension

2010-12-01 Thread Steve Cohen
The build process of the application I am bringing under svn creates a number of unix binary executables that have no extension : for example abcde fghqp etc. I believe that * will match any files with or without periods so it isn't suitable. Is there a pattern specifier that would embrace a

svn:ignore with recursive and non-recursive patterns

2010-12-01 Thread Steve Cohen
e one. Yet without it, svn:ignore is useless, or at least too cumbersome to be used well. Steve Cohen

Unable to lock error: what is going on here?

2010-12-01 Thread Steve Cohen
s that the project was checked out and then its build command run. The build command created a number of directories, which have been added to svn:ignore so as not to figure in svn at all. What am I failing to understand here? Steve Cohen

Unable to lock error: what is going on here?

2010-12-01 Thread Steve Cohen
s that the project was checked out and then its build command run. The build command created a number of directories, which have been added to svn:ignore so as not to figure in svn at all. What am I failing to understand here? Steve Cohen