Gridarta Subversion Developer Access

Checking out a normal working copy

To checkout a normal working copy of the latest development, checkout the trunk. This is what's called HEAD or MAIN/LATEST in other version control systems.

svn co https://gridarta.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/gridarta/trunk gridarta

Rules

Current rules are this:

• All files need a mime type. For normal source code, use text/plain. Use this command to set the mime type:
  svn propset svn:mime-type text/plain filename
  Note: A hook verifies that the mime type is set.
• All files with a text based mime type need a line ending setting. Gridarta convention is to always use LF. Use this command to set the line ending style:
  svn propset svn:eol-style LF filename
  Note: A hook verifies that the eol style for files with mime type text/* is set.
• All XHTML files of the documentation (src/doc/**/*.xhtml) need a meta element for the edit date:
  <meta name="Date" content="$Date$" />
  Also, they need their keyword substitution set to Date. Use svn propset svn:keywords Date filename to set the keyword substitution.
  Note: Because we cannot install custom hooks on SF, this is not checked with a hook.

Releases

Releases are created in the following way:

1. A branch with the new release name is created. Usually the branch will increase the minor revision and use it as its name. Example: svn copy trunk branches/0.8. The policy for branches is that they aren't completely frozen, but only changes required for release and bug fixing are allowed.
2. The branch is brought into releasable state. This usually should be zero effort, yet consider this a separate step.
3. The release is published. As a part of the release publishing, a tag with the new release name and patch level is created. Example: svn copy branches/0.8 tags/0.8.0. The policy for tags is that they are completely frozen, tags must never ever be changed.

Checking out a released version

To checkout a released version, use svn co https://gridarta.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/gridarta/tags/version gridarta with version being the release name. To checkout, for example, version 0.8.0, use svn co https://svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/gridarta/tags/0.8.0 gridarta.

See Also

• SourceForge.net: Subversion for Gridarta