Comments on: SVN misplaces my Flex project-files

By: trace9

trace9 — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 22:13:55 +0000

^^^ Ignore my previous post…

Here’s an easy way to remove .svn files from your Flex project:

svn ignore: bin, bin-debug, bin-release (I don’t worry about the ‘copy non-embedded assets’ setting).

Use the (default) html-template folder as before, and make sure it’s in version control. If someone else checks the project out, ‘html-template’ will be there for them too.

Create a batch file in the root directory of your project, and paste the following lines: (save as “remove_svn.bat”)

:START
IF EXIST %~dp0\bin FOR /F “tokens=*” %%G IN (‘DIR /B /AD /S %~dp0\bin\*.svn*’) DO RMDIR /S /Q “%%G”
IF EXIST %~dp0\bin-debug FOR /F “tokens=*” %%G IN (‘DIR /B /AD /S %~dp0\bin-debug\*.svn*’) DO RMDIR /S /Q “%%G”
IF EXIST %~dp0\bin-release FOR /F “tokens=*” %%G IN (‘DIR /B /AD /S %~dp0\bin-release\*.svn*’) DO RMDIR /S /Q “%%G”
PAUSE
:END

This removes (recursively) all the .svn folders (and children) from: bin, bin-release, and bin-debug ONLY IF those folders are present.

Run the batch file before committing/updating to keep your project clean.

By: trace9

trace9 — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 19:26:21 +0000

svn ignore: html-template, bin, bin-debug, bin-release (I don’t worry about the ‘copy non-embedded assets’ setting).

In my ‘src’ directory, I have an html folder that I use instead of the default ‘html-template’

I only modify files in this src/html directory, and when I make modifications I run a batch file which copies these files to html-template, bin, bin-debug and bin-release.

:START
IF EXIST %~dp0\html-template XCOPY /E /C /H /O /V /Y %~dp0\src\html\*.* %~dp0\html-template
IF EXIST %~dp0\bin XCOPY /E /C /H /O /V /Y %~dp0\src\html\*.* %~dp0\bin
IF EXIST %~dp0\bin-debug XCOPY /E /C /H /O /V /Y %~dp0\src\html\*.* %~dp0\bin-debug
IF EXIST %~dp0\bin-release XCOPY /E /C /H /O /V /Y %~dp0\src\html\*.* %~dp0\bin-release
PAUSE
:END

hope this helps someone.

By: Sami

Sami — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 10:37:33 +0000

Thanks for this post, had exactly the same problem.

By: scritic

scritic — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 18:44:45 +0000

Thank you – thank you – this solved my problem. What a waste of time some bugs are – I spent some 3 hours on this before stumbling on to this post.

By: Rahil Raju

Rahil Raju — Fri, 15 May 2009 08:56:53 +0000

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By: Jason Thaxter

Jason Thaxter — Fri, 08 May 2009 03:43:42 +0000

The only disadvantage of the method I mentioned is that when you first check out the project, you have to piece together html-template for yourself.

But again- subversion is doing exactly what it’s supposed to. The only fix for this situation is for FlexBuilder to learn to ignore .svn directories.

By: Jason Thaxter

Jason Thaxter — Fri, 08 May 2009 03:38:59 +0000

The issue here is really that Flex cannot be convinced to ignore files in html-template when generating bin-debug and bin (bin-release).

There are two solutions:
1) Include html-template in subversion, but have subversion ignore the bin directories.
2) Ignore html-template – so it has no .svn directories – but include bin-release and/or bin-debug.

I’ve done it the first way, but actually the second is probably better – by the time you’re ready to check anything in, it’s in one or both of the bin directories, and the .svn directories don’t get copied around. So now that I’ve switched to that, it’s much better.

Here’s my svn:ignore:
.actionScriptProject
.actionScriptProperties
.flexProperties
.flexProject
.project
.settings
html-template

By: swidnikk

swidnikk — Tue, 05 May 2009 08:39:33 +0000

Here’s the issue on flex bug tracker:

http://bugs.adobe.com/jira/browse/FB-11958

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» UnidefCMS new example - tree data structure — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 06:20:54 +0000

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By: Alan Owen

Alan Owen — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 11:57:13 +0000

My current experience: bin-debug is a ‘volatile’ directory and prone to regular re-writes, and subsequent overwrites from html-template. If html-template is under version control, the hidden ‘.svn’ files are copied into bin-debug by flex, subsequently fooling svn into thinking that bin-debug is actually html-template. Frustrating issues arise.

Solution: it is desirable to subversion control the html wrapper for your site, but committing html-template is not a good idea given the above. Instead commit your html files in a different directory e.g. ‘htmlpage’ and manually copy any alterations into the unversioned, flex controlled, local working copy html-template when necessary.

In such a case, version control of bin-debug should be safe as html-template contains no .svn files that may be copied into the directory on compile.