I have a linux eclipse project checked into our company svn. Works great.
The project is intended to be cross compiled on Windows.
Untill now, I have simply moved the source files between OSes. However, I thought I’d like to let svn do this for me. Should be simple enough, just checkout the eclipse linux src into the VS project dir, right? Wrong!
The correct source was checked out of svn and it worked fine. But when I tried to check it back in i kept getting “Commit not completed filename remains in conflict” errors. I hadn’t even changed anything!
Did a little checking. Turns out the linux src directory is pretty much just the source and headers. On the MSVS side the project directory contains the source and headers but also contains a bunch of files that are used by VS with names like projname.vcproj etc. etc.
So, I did a checkout into a scratch dirextory, .\fred. Checked .\fred back in. No problems. Added a new file to .fred, xxx.xxx. Check in reported:
svn: E200009: Commit failed (details follow):
svn: E200009: 'C:\Projects\fred\xxx.xxx' is not under version control
Makes me wonder about those uncommitted Visual Studio files.
So, are those files my problem? Are they breaking the commit operation?
As an alternate solution I am thinking of adding the VS files to the src dir in svn. If linux/eclipse checks them out I can tell eclipse to ignore them (I think it’ll just ignore them for me). Any thoughts or recommendations for this approach?
(BTW, i still had fresh source on the linux side so any thing that got clobbered could be safely restored.)
So here is one solution I have working for the moment. I am not sure how totally stable it is.
Caveat: The project i am using already existed as a MSVS project.
In the MSVS solution dir, rename the source dir (MSVS likes the source dir name to match the solution dir name, so this means the source dir may not be named src) to something uninvolved in the solution, like temp.
SVN checkout the src (eclipse like to call source dirs src).
cd into the source dir. Issue the command:
Add *.c if needed. “msvs” is the changelist name. It can be whatever you want ti to be.
This will created a changelist for the checked out directory.
Now, copy the remaining files from the temp directory into your source dir.
When you need to do a checkin, cd into the source dir and issue this command:
Note. You have to be in the src dir for this to work.