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By: brenda

brenda — Thu, 22 May 2008 04:37:27 +0000

I did report it as a bug to Apple and after a bit of correspondence (they initially thought it was not a bug but an error in my use of SVN) they have matched it to another bug report which is being investigated by engineering. It is interesting that my report number is 5866673 and the one being worked on is 5907532. I think that this means that I won’t be able to track when they say it is fixed - the status of my report is already ‘closed’. Anyway, hopefully they will have it fixed soon.

By: RUrob2

RUrob2 — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 18:47:00 +0000

Brenda, having looked at the details you sent me I think you’ve found a genuine bug, but there is an easy workaround.

I tried creating a Java Application project using Xcode 3.0. I committed it before building, then checked out a copy and built, creating several directories including bin.

I got the same error as you when I tried to commit by control-clicking on the project in the Groups & Files list. However, that’s not the way I usually commit. Instead, I use SCM - Commit Entire Project… from the menus. That seems to work OK.

Note that I didn’t need to set svn:ignore to get the commit to work. The only advantage of svn:ignore is hiding the bin etc. directories from the svn status report (equivalent to menu command SCM - SCM Results).

By: RUrob2

RUrob2 — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 23:15:17 +0000

There’s certainly no way to set svn:ignore from within Xcode: you have to use the command line, but at least it’s a once-only operation. There’s a reasonably clear and comprehensive explanation at:
http://sdesmedt.wordpress.com/2006/12/10/how-to-make-subversion-ignore-files-and-folders/

If you want to contact me directly, I’d be happy to have a closer look at what happens when you try and commit with the bin etc. directories. (I hope the website address I’ve entered on this form will show up.)

By: brenda

brenda — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 12:33:04 +0000

Thanks RUrob2. I’ve removed the build, bin, jar and dist directories from the SVN and then checked out a new copy. But trying to “Commit Project” still tries to work with the bin, jar and dist directories and fails. I’ve been looking at using svn:ignore, but can’t find a way to do it with Xcode. One way I’ve found suggest is to update the ~/.subversion/config to set the global-ignores parameter, but that doesn’t seem like a great idea as it might stop a legitimate file being backed up in the future. I tried it anyway, and it didn’t work.

So it looks like in Xcode you can only commit individual files to SVN, which makes it a lot less useful than if you can commit all the changes in a project.

By: RUrob2

RUrob2 — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 23:30:57 +0000

Generally, it’s not advisable to store any files in Subversion which can be recreated from source, such as the contents of build, bin, jar and dist directories. If you import the project to SVN straight after cleaning (i.e. without these folders), you should be able to check out a copy and work with it successfully. The folders will be created when you build, but you should not attempt to commit them to the repository. If you don’t want to see them listed when performing SVN operations, there is a command-line “svn ignore” option to tell SVN to take no notice of them.