On Oct 22, 2007, at 3:05 PM, Wade Preston Shearer wrote:
I am trying to figure out how best to build a scrip that automatically manages a directory's status in relation to a SVN repository. I have a team of marketing folk that create assets such as images, flash, and PDF documents and need to get them onto our production servers. Our current solution is web-based file upload that automatically copies the files out to the production servers. This is tedious though, especially when uploading multiple files and because we have a complex hierarchy without our assets directory. Thus, I want to give them access to a local server mount where they can simply drag and drop the files. I would have a cron job that would automatically come by each hour and pick up the files and move them to the production web servers. Here's the catch: I need the files put into our SVN repository. Having them each checkout a copy of the assets directory and use a GUI subversion client to manage it would be the easiest, but I am hoping that I can make it even easier for them… truly drag and drop. The best solution that I have come up with is to have two directories, one that they interact with and one that they don't. The the second would be a SVN checkout of the assets directory. I would then use rsync dry-run to compare changes between the two directories and then use the output to automatically run the add/delete and commit svn commands on the second.
What if they stick a really large binary file in there? I'd be worried that someone messes things up. Why automatically force them to put it in SVN, when someone who knows more about it should do that? SVN isn't best used as a file sharing tool.
Anyone have any better ideas?
Just let them mount part of a disk you both have access to - that way you can peruse the files they've dumped, and check them into the right place in the repo.
Well there's that, or teach them to use SVN correctly. :) $0.02, John _______________________________________________ UPHPU mailing list [email protected] http://uphpu.org/mailman/listinfo/uphpu IRC: #uphpu on irc.freenode.net
