Skt,
 File a bug on the capistrano bug tracker, and I'll pick this up there
http://capistrano.lighthouseapp.com/

- Lee

2009/4/27 skt <stibre...@gmail.com>

>
> Folks,
>
> I searched around this group and googled around but didn't find a
> clear answer to this question. Hopefully this group can point me in
> the right direction.
>
> I have the following structure in my repository
>
> <base dir>/Trunk/<typical RoR folders>
> <base dir>/Trunk/public   <-- This is svn:external pointing to <base
> dir>/shared/public
> <base dir>/Trunk/vendor/rails   <-- This is svn: external pointing to
> <base dir>/shared/vendor/rails
>
> Couple questions -
>
> 1. When I do a cap deploy I get an error that says
>
>    [www.mydomain.com] executing command
>  ** [www.mydomain.com :: err] svn: '.' is not a working copy
>  ** [www.mydomain.com :: err] svn: Can't open file '.svn/entries': No
> such file or directory
>
> When I take the svn checkout command that gets generated and add "--
> ignore-externals" and run that it works fine without the error above.
> It sounds like I need to add "--ignore-externals" to the svn checkout
> command that gets generated.
>
> I dug into the capistrano gem and found that in subversion.rb the
> "authentication" function returns the svn command string. I added "--
> ignore-externals" there conditioned on a variable in my deploy.rb.
> However, it turns out that "svn info" command which runs before "svn
> checkout" runs (to determine the latest version) also uses the same
> "authentication" function to generate the command string and the "--
> ignore-externals" that gets added to the "svn info" command is not a
> valid option and it barfs.
>
> So the question here is how do I do a cap deploy of my codebase where
> there are directories that point to shared directories using
> svn:external?
>
> 2. What is the best practice in terms of adding tasks for deploying
> your shared code? In my case I will be making changes to files under
> shared/public/javascripts directory that is linked from <base dir>/
> Trunk/public/javascripts. Do I create separate tasks within the same
> deploy.rb? Should I create a separate deploy_shared.rb that contains
> tasks only for shared deployment? If so (and this is probably a simple
> question but isn't obvious to me), how will deploy_shared.rb get
> recognized by the capistrano infrastructure and how will one call
> tasks listed within deploy_shared.rb? I created a deploy_shared.rb but
> can't find a way to call tasks in that file from the cap command.
>
> Thanks,
> -S
>
>
> >
>

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