WOCommon set-up notesEdit

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Setting up an empty repository

sudo svnadmin create ~/Developer/svnrep/WOCommon
sudo chown -R svn:svn ~/Developer/svnrep/WOCommon
cd trabajo
mkdir WOCommon
cd WOCommon
mkdir trunk tags branches
svn import http://localhost:8080/svnrep/WOCommon
rmdir branches tags trunk
svn co http://localhost:8080/svnrep/WOCommon/trunk trunk

Setting up other projects to use WOCommon

First set up the svn:externals property:

cd path_to_project_working_copy
svn propset svn:externals "WOCommon URL_to_WOCommon_trunk" .
svn commit -m "Set up WOCommon external"
svn up

Then add WOCommon as a folder reference to your Xcode project; this allows you to automatically see any new files that get added to WOCommon from within Xcode. Unfortunately to be able to actually use a file you must drag a copy of it into your Xcode project (the folder reference is not enough in itself). For this reason create a separate "WOCommon" group to which you can drag used files; this has the added benefit of allowing you to see the in-use files at a glance.

In order for Xcode to find the files you’ll need to change your HEADER_SEARCH_PATHS in your xcconfig file from this (assuming you’re using buildtools):

HEADER_SEARCH_PATHS                 = "$(SOURCE_ROOT)"

To this:

HEADER_SEARCH_PATHS                 = "$(TARGET_BUILD_DIR)" "$(SOURCE_ROOT)"

Adding new files to WOCommon

There are two ways to add new files to WOCommon:

  • In the WOCommon checkout created above, new files can be added to the repository using the normal Subversion add and commit commands.
  • If you add files to the WOCommon directory in an external checkout they will be ignored whenever you perform a commit but you can explicitly commit them with a svn commit WOCommon.

Keeping copies in sync

In the main WOCommon repository you can pull in changes made in other projects with an svn up. Likewise in other projects you can pull in changes made elsewhere with an svn up.

Switching branches

To switch to another WOCommon branch it won’t be sufficient to just use the svn switch command. You’ll actually have to do an svn propedit svn:externals . and change the repository URL to point to the new branch, then do an svn up.