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The 11th Commandment: Though shall not break builds

I'm a relatively recent convert to Subversion, and we're using it for the project I'm currently on. One problem I have with it, which is more a problem with me, is that check-in only checks in files it knows about. Fairly sensible really, but it means when you've added new files to the project you have to explicitly add them to Subversion before the checkin. Something I forget to do, a problem when other team members tend to work later than I do. Phil has stated the law. The count is rising.

posted on Thursday, November 16, 2006 9:27 AM Print
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 re: The 11th Commandment: Though shall not break builds
DuncanS
11/16/2006 1:34 PM
Use AnkhSVN in Visual Studio - it's not as good as TortoiseSVN (although it's getting better) - but you can easily see if there are local edits and importantly it will add files to SVN which you add to your project. I still end up doing the commit with Tortoise though as the log editor is better (based on SciTE).
 re: The 11th Commandment: Though shall not break builds
Dave
11/16/2006 1:38 PM
I uninstalled Ank a couple of revisions ago as it was crashing a lot. I admit I haven't checked out the latest builds; the auto-adding of new files would be very welcome though so maybe I'll give it another go.
 re: The 11th Commandment: Though shall not break builds
Josh
11/16/2006 4:12 PM
I think Accurev has a low cost SCM tool with functionality to avoid breaking builds or revert back to the last known good build if someone does. They call it Timesafety.

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