Question

My developer has emailed me a compressed folder of the project. Since he is not available at the moment, i want to know if the folder he’s emailed me contains .svn files or folders.

i want to deploy this folder(project) to the production server so i want to do it without the .svn mess.

At first glance on uncompressing the folder i don’t see any .svn file or folder there.

So does that mean it doesn’t contain any svn related mess?

And does it also mean that this is a normal copy and not a working copy from my developer’s computer or else either he has already rid it off svn through export or manually?

Answer 1

If there is no .svn folder then, yes there is no subversion technical data (i.e.: mess) in the archive. On Unix, Linux or with Cygwin on Windows you can run the following command from the root directory to find and .svn dir:

find . -name .svn -type d

Without Cygwin on Windows you can right click on the root directory, select Search type .svn in search for files or folders named:, check Type in the search options and then select Folder in the drop-down menu. Click Search Now and voilà.

If nothing comes out of this command then there is no subversion technical data in your developer’s delivery.

It don’t know how the developer did this but he probably did it using the svn export command. As this command let you either export from a URL or a working copy there is no way to tell the exact origin of your archive.