I'd like to include revision history in a menu system of my builds so that users can see it and it's auto-built from the svn repository before each build. My team doesn't have the core svn, only tortoise and ankh. I'd rather not have to go through configuration of it on each machine we use just for this feature if one of the tools we already have can do it.
I'm looking for something that does ANY full revision log dump like
svn log
svn log --xml
svn log -v
but built into ankh or tortoise.
i've been searching their documentation and websites with no luck so far, any ideas?
TortoiseSVN doesn’t have the ability to do this, and I doubt Ankh does either. The command line is the way to do it. If you don’t want to install a command-line client on every machine, you could consolidate your build process so that there is a dedicated build machine which does it.
I was looking for this the other day, and came up empty (we're using the exact same setup here).
If we both put in a feature request, it would carry more weight. ;)
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I am a Mac-based (10.8) web developer, trying to work with other Windows-based developers. They are using SVN, although most of them do not check out files to local repositories. They mostly edit the file on the local server via Explorer, and then use TortoiseSVN shell enhancement to right-click and "commit" what they just edited.
I cannot seem to do this, as my preferred SVN tool Versions (as well as Dreamweaver CS6) require access with the SVN, HTTP, etc. protocols. I get errors trying to use the file system.
So, I am trying the command line, navigating to the file I need to edit, open it, edit, save. I can run svn status on the directory and I see the file status as "M". If I try svn commit -m "updated" myflie.css or similar, I get an error:
svn: Unable to open an ra_local session to URL
svn: Local URL 'file://webstage-01/svn/repository/fc-dev/assets/css' contains unsupported hostname
I looked in the .svn folder "entries" file an see this:
10
dir
20788
file://webstage-01/svn/repository/fc-dev/assets/css
file://webstage-01/svn/repository
2012-06-26T16:08:10.220007Z
20747
JSmith
So it looks like that's where it's getting the path from, which is not a valid MacOS or Unix path.
Suggestions?
It sounds like the local server is already a checked out working directory that everyone is sharing. This is the completely wrong and awful way to do Subversion. In the end, you have no idea who is making the change because they're all using the same client. Plus, there's no guarantee that working clients use the same format of the working directory. If someone has a version 1.6 TortoiseSVN on their system, they could damage that working copy.
The correct way is for everyone to checkout a local copy of what's in that Subversion repository to their local machine (Windows or Mac), and then do their changes there and check it in. You won't have the issue of someone messing up that directory. You know who is making the changes. You won't have an issue of what happens if two people try to make the same changes at the same time. It's the way Subversion is suppose to work.
The Mac has the Subversion command line client. (Assuming you're using Mountain Lion -- the latest release) You need to install XCode (free from the Mac App store), and then in XCode, install the command line tools. Look at the on line Subversion manual and learn how to do the checkout in Subversion, create your own working directory, and check in from that.
There are many options if you want a Mac OS X GUI Subversion client. I highly recommend you look at Pathfinder](http://cocoatech.com/pathfinder/). It has a built in Subversion GUI client, but it also has many Finder enhancements that make it an excellent Finder replacement -- especially for power users. It's $40, but I think it's worth it just for the built in Terminal client.
I don't think you can do that. The svn folders on "local server" were created by a platform-specific tool like TortoiseSVN on Windows. Obviously it will have paths, etc. specific to Windows. You will need to checkout separately and make commits.
Also, BTW, set the EOL property to 'native' so that you do not run into cross-platform EOL issues.
Is there any useful tool that can store history of my folder locally like SVN does?
For example I can commit (however not to server but locally) or it can automatically track folder history.
The idea is to view history of my folder and rollback something or so (like in SVN but without server)
This is needes for Windows
Git should do the trick nicely. It is distributed so you can just use it locally without connecting to a server.
http://code.google.com/p/msysgit/
What you describes sound a whole lot like the core of distributed/decentralized version control systems (DVCS). The most popular DVCSs are Git and Mercurial (and Bazaar to some degree, though it seems an order of magnitude less widespread).
In fact, I'm doing precisely what you describe for some non-programming projects, with Mercurial (specifically TortoiseHg - the equivalent to TortoiseSVN) and it's working perfectly. Git long had a reputation for inferior Windows support and GUI tools, but I wouldn't be surprised if this has changed. I've never really used Git (wasn't ever dissatisfied with Mercurial, so I only use it for checking out the source of projects that use Git), so I can neither judge its fitness for your usecase nor recomment a frontend.
You can use even SVN (TortoiseSVN) with file:/// protocol for this task (create local repo without server)
TortoiseHg is superior to TortoiseGit in many features.
Would be a matter of changing a few lines of code to make a new TortoiseGit based on TortoiseHg, or it requires weeks/months of development?
You can use Mercurial with Git repositories via the excellent hg-git extension, which is developed by the github folks. Any recent TortoiseHg version already has the dulwich library, you just need to clone hg-git and add a couple lines to your mercurial.ini file.
The instructions are in the TortoiseHg help under "Use with other VCS systems" .
Directions for configuring ssh can be found here. However, TortoiseHg will automatically use the plink it comes bundled with, so you don't need to worry about configuring PuTTY's plink.
Note that I've had some problems cloning large repos on XP due to file locking issues which don't seem to occur on Windows 7.
It would definitely not be just a matter of changing a few lines.
TortoiseHg is intimately written against Mercurial. It doesn't just wrap around the command line client, it integrates with the core python code.
The entire program, from bottom and up, would have to be rewritten.
It is much more constructive to give the TortoiseGit team good feedback on what you would like see improved.
On our TFS source control server, a lot of source files are checked out by people, which are not employed any more.
Is there a central way where I can undo check out on all files in TFS?
I'm not even sure that they exists in Active Directory anymore.
Best thing to do is to delete their workspace using with the command line tool (tf.exe) or the TFS Sidekicks from Attrice.
See the following blog post I did on the topic when it happened to me, and I detailed the command line version:
http://www.woodwardweb.com/vsts/unlocking_files.html
There are command line tools that can do this.
However, I find the sidekicks tool much easier to use (it is free and stable.)
You can undo check out easily. There's much more in there that makes it well worth the installation.
Are there any native Git implementations for Windows that do not require Cygwin? I've become a fan of the TortoiseSVN client, and would really like to see a similar Git client for Windows.
Edit: I am also considering Mercurial, but would prefer to check out a few before I make a decision.
There is a TortoiseGit -- Window Explore Extenstion to Operate Git.
I started GitExtensions about a week ago. Allthough version 0.6 is a pretty complete package, I do not consider it release-ready yet. The toolset should be ready for its first stable release in a few days. There are a few things I need to fix before anyone should use it in production. The most important problem now is that the shell extension part is written in c# and therefore can cause problems. I'm rewriting this in c++ at the moment, should just take another few hours. I also want to build in some features that should prevent users from screwing up (like create a stash ontop of another stash and throwing away work or commiting changes when in the middle of a merge). I allready finished allmost all git commands I ever use (push, pull, fetch, stash, branch, commit, merge, format-patch, am, apply, etc), so it should be usable pretty soon. The toolset is written in C# (.Net 3.5 until version 0.6, later versions use .Net 2.0) except the shell extension part. There is also a visual studio plugin, but this is still pretty basic.
I have not tried TortoiseGit yet btw, but I really like TortoiseSVN!
Henk
Take a look at MSysGit. However this is just the command line git compiled with MingW instead of cygwin. This is not a GUI Tool like TortoiseSVN.
There is GitExtensions that takes the same path as Tortoise but it does not look ready yet.
Have you tried looking at the TortoiseGit page on Google Code? I believe it's the same project as the other link posted, but it's a bit friendlier. You can download the latest version as an installer from there.