Create a subversion repository for rails

First you need a directory to house your repository. Since I work on multiple projects at home and in the office I need a master directory first. And just to make it simple I use /repos. This could be a link or a real directory.

(To clean-out a old svn directory use the following find . -name .svn -exec ‘rm -rf {}\;‘)

Step 1:

# create /repos

Step 2 (Create a repository):

# svnadmin create /repos/rails_project

Step 3 (Create rails specific directories):

# export REPOS=file:///repos/rails_project

# svn mkdir --message="Initial project layout" $REPOS/trunk $REPOS/tags $REPOS/branches

Step 4 (Initial Import of project):

# cd /rails_project

# svn import . file:///repos/rails_project/trunk -m "Initial Import..." */ This command import everything from the current directory to the svn server running locally using the file:/// structure */

Step 5 (check-out):

# svn co file:///repos/rails_project/trunk rails_project

# svn co svn://subversion_server/rails_project/trunk rails_project

Both of the above command will checkout the trunk of rails_project into a directory called rails_project.

Step 6 (Rails clean-up):

Go into the newly checked-out rails project

*/ Remove and Ignore the log files */  

# svn remove log/* 

# svn commit -m 'removing all log files from subversion' 

# svn propset svn:ignore "*.log" log/ 

# svn update log/ 

# svn commit -m 'Ignoring all files in /log/ ending in .log */ Remove and Ignore tmp directory */   

# svn remove tmp/* 

# svn commit -m 'removing all tmp artifacts from subversion' 

# svn propset svn:ignore "*" tmp/ 

# svn update tmp/ 

# svn commit -m "ignore tmp/ content from now on" */ Move the database config file to an example file and ignore */   

# svn move config/database.yml config/database.example 

# svn commit -m "Moving database.yml to database.example to provide a template for anyone who checks out the code" 

# svn propset svn:ignore "database.yml" config/ 

# svn update config/ 

# svn commit -m "Ignoring database.yml"