Question

I have a developer tool that modifies the local file system using php. These projects are often checked out from SVN. The issue that I would like to avoid is the moving / deleting / renaming of version controlled directoires – and the breakage that occurs to a checked out SVN when doing those alterations locally.

Is there a simple way to apply the SVN commands (move add, delete, rename etc) when I also perform the matching file system operations?

Or is it easier just to delete .svn dirs if found in move / rename targets?

To clarify this:

A checked out svn that has a structure of:

somedir/
–foo/
–cheese/

User 1 alters this file system structure (using the dev tool), renaming the ‘foo’ dir (which is under version control) to ‘modified’, when they go to commit their changes the svn will error due to the change in name not being done via SVN commands.

This could be running on a variety of development servers (usually desktop machines running apache on win or mac)

Dont want to ignore or disconnect from the svn.

Answer 1

In your PHP file, you could use the svn commands via exec()

<?php $Output = ''; $ExitCode = 0; exec('svn mv ''.$Current.'' ''.$New.''', $Output, $ExitCode); 

$Output is the output of the command and $ExitCode will be 0 if the command was successful.

Keep in mind however, that for security reasons the exec() command might be disabled on some systems. If you have control of your php.ini file, you can choose to enable/disable it.