On Thu, Jun 27, 2013 at 7:06 AM, Nico Kadel-Garcia <nka...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.7/svn.advanced.props.special.ignore.html >> >> In summary: this is a way to tell svn to ignore a file (or filename pattern) >> when looking for files to check-in. Hence the file itself is not in the >> repo, but your template version(s) is (are). >> >>> And what is this script that would trigger on checkout ? >> >> That would be (for me, on windows) a simple batch file (that is also checked >> in) that the user knows to run. > > Every software building system has some common tools for this. GNU > make uses "autoconf" and the resulting ./configure file. X11 used to > use "xmkmf" and the "Imakefile". Maven, well, maven has it's own > ideas..... Another thing to consider is that you may later wish to add automated build/CI tools like Jenkins which will do unattended builds for you, possibly in different environments. So it is good to plan for that from the start, providing a script or batch file that does all the steps needed to configure for any local differences and perform the build as part of the project. -- Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com
