This little article is a summary of how I currently manage my wordpress blog. The wordpress.org site lists some advice on how to manage a wordpress installation using subversion. However, I have a slightly more sophisticated setup that preserves my modifications (as long as they don’t conflict) that I maintain in a private branch of [...]
Also tagged problemsandsolutions, subversion, wordpressI was struggling this evening with the default merge tool that ships with tortoise svn. It’s not bad and quite user friendly. However, I ran into trouble with it when trying to review changes in a latex file (don’t ask, I still hate the concept of debugging and compiling stuff I would normally type in [...]
Also tagged linux, python, reviewsAs you may recall, I had a nice incident recently which made me really appreciate the fact that I was able to restore my data from a backup. Over the years I’ve sort of gobbled together my own backup solution using rsync (I use the cygwin port to windows).
First a little about hardware. Forget about [...]
For a few weeks I’ve been waiting for cygwin to update their subversion binaries. But for some reason they are not in a hurry. Subversion 1.4 was recently released and this time it includes some changes to both the repository format and the work directory format. If you use 1.4 binaries on your workdirectory, it [...]
Also tagged subversionNext week, I am attending the Software Product Line Conference 2006 in Baltimore. I’m presenting a paper in on variability mechanisms in service grids (posted about this a few months ago) and two workshop papers.
I submitted a paper to the Managing Variability for Software Product Lines: Working With Variability Mechanisms. The paper, which I wrote [...]
If you use TortoiseSvn (a popular subversion frontend that integrates into explorer), you might be interested in xdocdiff. This tool can be plugged in as a diff viewer for several binary file formats, including .doc .pdf .ppt and .xls. It works by converting both revisions of a file to txt and then using the regular [...]
Also tagged reviews, subversionHaving worked with subversion quite extensively, I know what to expect from a proper versioning system. However, I’m currently working in a project with a cvs server. Here’s a few of my observations:
I can’t seem to get tortoisecvs and eclipse to work together on the same checked out repository. Reason: tortoisecvs does not support eclipse’s [...]
Also tagged eclipse, java, subversionI found this article rather insightful -Ofun
I agree with most of it. Many software projects (commercial, oss, big & small) have strict guidelines with respect to write access to soure repositories and usage of these rights. As the author observes many of these restrictions find their roots in the limited ability of legacy revision control [...]
I had some more fun with subclipse today. The integration with eclipse is much better than I anticipated. Eclipse already has extensive cvs functionality. Subclipse acts as a backend for this functionality and that means you get a lot of nice features. I was also pleasantly surprised with how well subclipse performs. Overall I [...]
Also tagged eclipse, javaFor the zillionth time I decided to spend some time trying to get subclipse (http://subclipse.tigris.org/) to play nice with our svn+ssh repository at work. For those scratching their heads: eclipse is a popular java development ide; subversion is a version management system and subclipse is a subversion backend for eclipse’s team synchronization functionality. Until [...]
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