Question

Currently I have subversion set up so that when I make changes in Eclipse PDT, I can commit the changes and they will be saved in /home/administrator/Project File. This file has the /branches /tags and /trunk directories recommended by subversion. I have no problem properly uploading files to the repository, but do I have to ‘mv’ the files in Linux to /var/www in order to make them live on the server? Is there an automatic process to do this that I am missing? I’m assuming we don’t want to make the /var/www directory (which is live on the machine) the repository, but I don’t know.

Answer 1

You can do an svn export into your www directory. That will give you a ‘clean’ version of your repo, without the .svn directories.

cd /var/www svn export /home/administrator/MyProject/trunk MyProject 

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Edit: adding in some good ideas from the comments…

Some options for when you want to update your exported copy:

• run svn export --force /home/...../ MyProject this will stop it complaining about overwriting the existing files. This method will mean that if you delete a file from your repository, it’ll still remain in your www folder.
• change your SVN command to export into a new directory each time:
  svn export /home/..../ MyProject_20081105
  and then create a symlink to that folder:
  ln -s MyProject_20081105 MyProject
  Just delete and recreate the symlink each time you ‘release’. In this case, the export directory doesn’t need to be in the www folder at all.