Category Archives: subversion

Archetyping with Maven

These past two weeks have seen some quality time spent with Apache Maven.  I spent a few days figuring out how to create a custom project archetype in order to streamline project creation in my department. Why Maven? I developed … Continue reading

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Symbolic Links in Subversion pt. 2

This is for Tim. Let’s say you’ve got three repositories <A>, <B>, and <C>.  The contents of <A> are the following: /images /css The contents of B look like this: /css /pages C looks like this: /scripts /foo The svn:externals property … Continue reading

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Symbolic Links in Subversion

My work SVN repository is taking a while to update (see here for details).  So I’ll just write a bit about the latest neat feature I’ve been benefiting from in Subversion: svn:externals. The idea is an old one: link to … Continue reading

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Mixing Case Sensitivity Sucks

At work we use SVN for our SCM needs.  SVN is free, open source, and works well enough for my current needs (though I’m really, really interested in getting into a decentralized SCM one of these days). Subversion is also … Continue reading

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Phinding Phing!

I’ve been on a wild goose chase to upgrade Phing. For those who don’t know, Phing is a Apache Ant-like program for PHP. It’s quite nice to use for the purposes of automation (though personally I hope the world can … Continue reading

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