Category Archives: svn

Subversion with a custom port on OS X

By Alastair | January 2, 2008

Setting up subversion to checkout and over a custom port number is one of those tasks that I do once every six months, and immediately forget, then I waste time a’Googling to find it again.
Open up subversion’s config file
mate /Users/myuser/.subversion/config
Then find the section marked [tunnels], and add a line naming your custom port (replacing ‘1234′ [...]

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Remove a project from subversion control

By Alastair | June 7, 2007

About twice a year I need to completely remove a project from svn, I can never find/remember the snippet so I’m posting it on the internets.
# to remove svn from an existing app
find . -name .svn -print0 | xargs -0 rm -rf

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How to: Ignore all files in a directory (folder) with subversion

By Alastair | February 21, 2007

The ignore command for subversion can be confusing. Ignoring certain files types is pretty easy:
$ svn propset svn:ignore “*.log” log
but ignoring folders is tricky and was giving me headaches for a while. I was using file_column (in Rails) to save uploaded photos and whenever I did a svn status I would get a list of [...]

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MT GS RoR A-Z: The complete guide to Rails on Media Temple’s Grid Server

By Alastair | February 18, 2007

This tutorial will walk you through setting up everything you need to deploy Rails apps on Media Temple’s Grid Server. The information on each part of the setup is available elsewhere but I thought it would be helpful to have it all in one place. The tutorial will cover setting up a rails container, creating [...]

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