I am working on a project using Eclipse 4.19.0. I also have Subclipse installed. However I started using TortoiseSVN 1.10. I have ignored files in a nested project (trunk > subproject > right click > TortoiseSVN > Properties) like:
However, if I trunk > right click > Commit, changes in subproject/bin/someFolder does still get shown. Weirdly the ignore works for subproject/build/*.
Any idea what could be the cause?
If a file has been commited to SVN then it doesn't matter if it is ignored or not. It will be handled like any other file you have checked out from the SVN repository.
So if you want to ignore files that have already been committed to SVN you first have to delete them from SVN.
TortoiseSVN has a functionality that combines deleting the file in SVN (but keeping it locally) and adding it to ignore list:
Unversion and add to ignore list:
The other ways like deleting the file locally and commit it or delete the file in SVN via SVN repo browser will end up in the local file being deleted. So you chose this way make sure to first copy the local files to a backup location so that you are able to restore the file(s) once the delete operation has been applied.
I was following the remarks from this SO Post to "Update" my working copy with the lastest revision checked into our SVN repo.
This made perfect sense as it is the same way I would do it using TortoisSVN. Click Update and you get most recent updated files. However, there was a file I deleted from JBoss Developer (eclipse) and was expecting that using the Update option in JBDS would restore the most recent version of that file from the SVN
However, instead it just told me a conflict existed (file deleted from working copy, but exists on repository) and did not download it like it would with TortoisSVN.
So my question is - how do I get it to update where it actually redownloads the file I deleted?
With TortoiseSVN, if you simply delete a file then it becomes "Missing". If you delete a file in Eclipse, it tells Subclipse you deleted the file so it runs svn delete. The equivalent of taking the Delete action in TortoiseSVN. When you do an update, missing files are restored in your working copy, but deleted files are not -- because you said to delete it.
You are getting something else though. In your case, there was a newer version of the file in the repository. Because it is marked deleted locally, that is a tree conflict. If you did the Delete action in TortoiseSVN you would see the same.
The tree conflict is so that you are aware that the file you deleted has been modified by someone. So maybe you want to reconsider the delete etc. The Team > Show Tree Conflicts option will show all tree conflicts and provide option to resolve it.
Decided to take the jump from CVS to SVN.
I setup a new repository in subclipse for my project. When I go to 'Finish' the setup it wants to do an initial commit and presents me with a flat list of files to select the files for version controlling.
The problem is I have thousands of generated binary files I dont want to commit.
So I click on cancel because it would take me all day to go through and unselect all the unwanted files. Annoyingly when I click on a parent category for the files I want to ignore it is not recursive!
So I click cancel then go to the eclipse directory structure for the project and manually set svn:ignore on all directories I want to ignore. Then I try and do a commit again and all the files are once again presented - ignore seems to have done nothing.
Can anybody point out what I might be doing wrong?
For the first commit, I recommend writing a small script to delete (of course you'll have a backup) all the files that are not meant to be committed.
Afterwards, if you find you accidentally committed a file, you can
svn delete file
Upon the first checkout, copy back (or better yet, regenerate) all the binary files. This will trigger svn to notice that your local repository is out-of-sync with the remote repository.
cd <Root of local repository>
svn status
You will see lots of "to be added" items. Go to the parent directory and add in svn:ignore properties for each of the generated items.
cd build
svn propedit svn:ignore .
which will open an editor (if it doesn't, you need to set the environmental variable SVN_EDITOR to a suitable editor). Then you can add in entries that svn will know are not tracked.
(in the ignore property editor)
target
build
image*
*.o
(and so on)
Save the file, and it will be staged for the next commit. Subsequent runs of svn status will no longer show these files as "needing to be added", but they will show the directory as "needing to be committed (it's a revision on the directory)"
Quick Aside
So I'm not entirely certain exactly which functionality of Subclipse you were using in order to create a repo and share a project to it, I'm assuming you created like a file based repo through the eclipse SVN repo view and tried to share and then commit to it. It looks like your problem got solved but I did want to add an answer on here because I ran across this post looking for the answer to this same problem of handling initial commits even just in general with SVN and wanted to offer help to anyone else looking for the help.
Intro
To start off I would recommend not working through an IDE extension like this just for the initial commit as they can miss a lot of the options for handling opening a repo in SVN. I personally really like the command line form of SVN to work with but TortoiseSVN is a good option for a GUI.
Whether you create a local file-based repo or are connecting to an SVN server and you want better control over your first commit in an previously unversioned project here is what I've found as the best general workflow for doing so.
Create the remote folder to save to.
On command line this will be:
$> svn mkdir your-url-scheme://your-site-address.domain/path/to/repo/example-directory
Or on TortoiseSVN open your repo for browsing, right click, and select "create new folder"
This will give you a location in the SVN repo to checkout from for our next step.
Checkout in to the already started project
Make sure to use the empty, newly created folder in your repo to checkout with. SVN does not actually require a folder being checked out to to be empty, which is an important part of what makes it actually very flexible and able to subsume parts of your directory into it fairly easily if used correctly.
Now you will checkout this empty folder into the root folder of your already started project. This will add your project to the working copy of this folder without any commit being made yet. The command is:
$> svn co your-url-scheme://your-site-address.domain/path/to/repo/example-directory /your/projects/root/
"co" standing for checkout. In Tortoise svn you can right click on or in the empty repo folder and select "checkout..." and then select the project root.
Set ignores and commit
Finally, you can easily set your ignores on certain files before adding any other files to the tree using the command:
$> svn propset svn:ignore file-or-directory-to-ignore
And to add all non-ignored directories and files:
$> svn add * --force
The force is technically unnecessary in this case but ensures full recursion. You can also now do all of this in your file explorer if using TortoiseSVN or you can even use your IDE extensions to do this at this point(make sure to ignore all files you need to before mass-adding files for commit), all that's left is to make sure to commit the newly added files to the repo and you're up and running with source control :)
Added this method here simply because this method allows you to avoid any unnecessary copying of those stinky binaries that no one wants to lug around with them.
I am using Flash Builder for PHP 4.5 to work on a php project. It is essentially Zend Studio which is built on top of eclipse.
I've moved some folders and files, renamed some files from within Flash Builder. Some files were also removed. I then attempted to commit to SVN.
SVN comes back with an error saying commit failed as one of the files is not up to date. Conincidentally, this is also one of the files that was removed.
I then proceeded to do an update first and got the message: No changes to merge.
Trying to commit again just results in an error saying that the files are not up to date.
Any ideas as to how I can fix this?
Assuming that it's the deleted file that's making your commits fail, you can try reverting the deleted file, then updating, then deleting again, but if that fails, you might want to consider making a copy of the changes you made in your WC, revert the originals, update the originals, then copy all the changes back.
OR, if you're sure that it's only that deleted file that's making the commit fail, then commit everything else first, then go back and revert the deleted file, update, then delete and commit again. Like I said, SVN is fickle about dirty working copies...
[answer auto-selected by bounty system against my will]
I'm using subclipse, and always when delete a folder in Eclipse, and try to commit it, the following errors raise:
svn: Item <folder> is out of date
svn: DELETE of <folder>: 409 Conflict (http://myintranet)
Deleting and commiting via command line works fine, but what's wrong with doing it via subclipse? Is anyone more experiencing this problem?
(I experienced this problem in Ubuntu 9.10 and 10.04; last Eclipse version; and subclipse 1.4 - as the next versions of subclipse have much more bugs)
--updated: Its when I delete folders, not files
Isn't that addressed by the Subclipse FAQ?
Whenever you see "out of date" in an error message it means that the revision of the item in the repository is newer than the copy in your local working copy.
The solution is always going to be to run an update, so that your working copy is up to date with the repository, and then do the commit again (assuming that the update did not generate any conflicts).
For files, this is usually pretty easy to understand how and why this happens.
However, Subversion also versions folders, and it is usually with folders that this problem most often happens.
Subversion does not allow you to delete/rename a folder OR change its versioned properties, UNLESS the local copy of the folder is at the HEAD revision of the folder in the repository.
Your next question might be:
"OK, I can maybe understand that, but why is my folder out of date? I am the only person working in this repository."
That is a valid question, the answer lies in the way that Subversion works.
When you commit a change to a file, the revision of the file in your working copy is updated to that new revision when the commit completes, however the version of the parent folder(s) of that file is not updated.
This is because there may have been adds/deletes to other files in that folder and until you have run an update, the folder is not really at that new revision.
This is called "mixed revision working copies".
In summary, the answer is always to do an update so that the folder or file is updated to its HEAD revision.
About "Mixed Revision Working Copies":
One special kind of flexibility is the ability to have a working copy containing files and directories with a mix of different working revision numbers.
One of the fundamental rules of Subversion is that a “push” action does not cause a “pull,” nor vice versa.
Just because you're ready to submit new changes to the repository doesn't mean you're ready to receive changes from other people.
The fact is, every time you run svn commit your working copy ends up with some mixture of revisions.
The things you just committed are marked as having larger working revisions than everything else. After several commits (with no updates in between), your working copy will contain a whole mixture of revisions
(and that is why, I believe, you cannot reproduce your "out of date" message on subsequent commits with folder deleted: your update did solve the "mixed revision" state.)
Mixed revisions have limitations
You cannot commit the deletion of a file or directory that isn't fully up to date.
If a newer version of the item exists in the repository, your attempt to delete will be rejected to prevent you from accidentally destroying changes you've not yet seen.
i think if you UPDATE before that it should work.. it did work for me
There's a simple solution without installing some extra software. I also had this "problem" and what you can do is the following:
1) open the SVN Repository view
2) there go to the folder you want to get rid of and delete it
3) go back to the java view
4) update the folder in your project you actually deleted / update your project should also work
That solved the problem in my case, as updating only retrieved the files I deleted
Subclipse has many problems like this. It works 90% of time, and then it just DOES NOT work as it should! I am using subclipse, since it is very well integrated into eclipse, and when I have problem or some bigger moves needed in svn (like merging some branch) I use Tortoisse.
I had the thing with directory like you. Then I just run the TortoiseSVN like #luiscolorado suggests, and it helped. Tortoise is so great tool (it has many great features for diffing, applying patches, getting patches and so on.).
Today I had a problem when I have removed a file, and someone had changed the same file! Then subclipse shows conflict (up to this point everything is ok), so I wanted to revert! But then the revert button is missing (disappears when inconflict mode!) so I have to do merge, and merge does not work, throws some kind of error. I didn't bother to read (maybe I should read and file it as a bug to subclipse maintainers ;-(), I knew the tortoisse will work, and you know what, it worked. There was a REVERT option.
So #Tom Brito, try command line, try Tortoisse, and then you can look at the subclipse changelog and file a bug. I think that subclipse just forgets to show us some directory changes and updates (or it is designed not to do it?), but I may be wrong.
Tom,
You might want to try TortoiseSVN, and manually update the project workspace. Find the location of your project directory in your hard drive, and then try TortoiseSVN (or the command line if it's your preference) to do the update.
A frequent cause of this problem is to delete the directory without "informing" SVN. For instance, if you manually delete the directory using the operating system instead of using SVN, you will have this problem.
If you removed the directory before you installed the subversion plug-in, but the project already existed in the repository, you will experiment this problem. A solution, in this case, would be to recreate the directory, updating/committing, and then delete again the directory.
Good luck.
My solution to this was
Delete all items in folder
Commit to repository
Update folder to HEAD
Delete folder in Eclipse
Commit to repository
A bit cumbersome, maybe, but it always works
The only working way in same cases is via command line. The subclipse is still not perfect..