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Braden Shepherdson commented on CB-5397:
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The intended use of Xcode is as a build system and launcher for the emulator.
The native code files are not overwritten on prepare, only the www files. The
correct place to edit the www files is in $PROJECT/www, not
$PROJECT/platforms/ios/www. The documentation should be loud about this, rather
than nearly silent.
You can use Xcode for editing the www files, but you need to explicitly point
it at the $PROJECT/www files, not the www directly it has indexed. We recognize
that this is confusing and lame, but it's out of our hands. Xcode doesn't
handle symlinks nicely, or we would symlink the files instead of copying them.
(It will load the file correctly from the symlink, but when you save it'll
overwrite the link with a copy, if I remember correctly.) We are trying to
avoid mixing your app with plugin assets, to avoid collisions and so on.
> "cordova prepare ios" overwrites existing source code files/directories
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>
> Key: CB-5397
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-5397
> Project: Apache Cordova
> Issue Type: Bug
> Components: CLI
> Affects Versions: 3.1.0
> Environment: MacOS 10.8.5
> XCode 5.01
> Reporter: Tom Ernhardt
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> The cordova command line "cordova prepare ios" clobbers user-created source
> code files/directories without warning
> Steps to reproduce:
> # create a test app
> cordova create test com.test test
> cd test
> cordova platform add ios
> # add a plugin
> cordova plugin add https://github.com/apache/cordova-plugin-device.git
> cordova prepare ios
> Then open the generated Xcode project in Xcode
> Add some source code files
> # Now add a different plugin
> cordova plugin add https://github.com/apache/cordova-plugin-console.git
> # WARNING THIS WILL DELETE YOUR APP'S SOURCE CODE FILES
> cordova prepare ios
> All the source code files and directories that you created in
> /platforms/ios/www/
> have just been deleted by the cordova CLI without any warning!
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