[Lazarus] Which fpc/lazarus svn to use?

Mattias Gaertner nc-gaertnma at netcologne.de
Sat Sep 28 11:13:15 CEST 2013


On Sat, 28 Sep 2013 10:59:26 +0200
Reinier Olislagers <reinierolislagers at gmail.com> wrote:

>[...]
> > ...and then, when a new version is released, I need to download an
> > other svn url, deleting the old one?
> Well.... yes, that is an option. See below though.
> > Can I upgrade?
> (untested, by memory) you could do an svn export of your existing
> directory to a new dir, then delete the old one (or a more hackish way
> that avoids copying: remove all .svn subdirs and any other svn files in
> your currerent directory).
> 
> Now you probably have most of the files, but you need to get the svn
> repo info/metadata as well as all updates/deletions/additions.
> do an svn checkout for the new url specifying the new directory. You
> probably will need to use --force or something as it will complain about
> the directory already existing, being non-empty etc.

No. 
A svn checkout will download all files.
If you do a checkout always start with an empty directory.
Otherwise you merge, for example renamed files.

Either download everything with svn checkout or use svn switch to
switch to another branch.

Mattias




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