Subversion reintegrate how to#
Subversion reintegrate update#
Subversion reintegrate windows#

Subversion reintegrate how to#

I haven’t figured it out how to accomplish that with JDeveloper when you try to version the project it actually only versions the. With TortoiseSVN it’s actually quite easy to add all your files to subversion at once: go to the top (project) directory and select add from the context menu (followed by a commit).

Subversion reintegrate update#

It’s also good practice to do an update after a commit to make sure that the working copy contains the latest revision. We’ll see later that it’s very important to write write good commit messages. I normally create the project directory and the default trunk, tags and branches directly in the repository and then do a checkout of the trunk, add the files and do a commit but of course you can also use subversion import (followed by a checkout). The generated project contains one file, App.java and a testcase. I’m a great fan of Maven archetype to get started quickly: mvn archetype:generate and choose option 15 (by the way, a preview of the new Maven extension for JDeveloper 11gPS1 is available, so I hope that we can do this directly from JDeveloper in the near future). Let’s start with a simple project called ‘simpleApp’ that contains a very basic class that we modify on the trunk and a branch at the same and have these changes merged into the other. So let’s see how this looks in real life. And although JDeveloper offers good subversion support, the current version (11.1.1.2) has a serious issue for merging (see below), so I use TortoiseSVN for this demo instead.

But at the same time I prefer to work in the environment of an IDE, like JDeveloper and have subversion support.

Subversion reintegrate windows#

Actually, this is not so complicated as it might seem, especially when using modern tools like TortoiseSVN or IDE’s.įor this article I’ll use mainly TortoiseSVN, it’s a great subversion client that integrates nicely with the context menu of windows explorer. So it’s a real good idea to keep the feature branch in sync with the trunk and have the changes in the trunk regularly applied to the feature branch too. And although subversion does provide extensive merge support, this might get messy with big changes. Now, while you can work on isolation on the feature branch, there will come a time that you’ll have to integrate (merge) the changes with the trunk. A feature branch is normally a temporary branch to work on a (complex) change without interfering with the stability of the main development line (trunk) and in the end is incorporated back into the main line again.The product branch is normally to support maintenance on a released version while development of the next version continues.

In general we can identify two types of branches: product and feature branches. And for the stable and controlled development is it almost a necessity to master it. Although many developers avoid it, branching is very powerful and useful and should not be something to be afraid off but something to be familiar with. One of the great features is it’s branching and merging support. During merges which merge all eligible revisions from another branch, Subversion 1.8 will. Subversion is a great source control system. Automatic reintegration merge (-reintegrate option deprecated).