Re: [mh] SVN version# in About MH -- SOLVED ..was Re: Rain totals not updating using weather_aws.pl

[Matthew W. <mat...@us...>]

Tom wrote:
> Knowing the above, I got it working.. I was using the SVN checkout 
> incorrectly and it wasn't making the entries file correctly.
> 
> FYI for anyone else who is trying to use SVN code, I created the 
> following alias in /root/.bashrc
> 
> alias svncheckout_mh='svn checkout 
> https://svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/misterhouse/trunk/ /usr/local/mh/'
> 

I'm glad that you got it working and that the new revision detection code
works on someone else's machine. :-)

Now, just to be clear for those not used to subversion, you should only ever
need to do a subversion checkout once.  What Tom' alias does is pull down
the entire contents of the repository trunk into /usr/local/mh.  From that
point on, you should only need to do an "svn update" to pull down any
changes that have occurred since the last time that you did your checkout or
a previous update.  The "svn update" command should be run from
/usr/local/mh, in the above case.  If you were to run it from
/usr/local/mh/bin, as a second example, only those updates from within the
bin directory would be pulled down, which is almost always NOT what you want.

There are circumstances where you want to have multiple copies of the
repository, but they are rare, and should only be attempted once you have a
solid understanding of subversion.

If anyone ever has subversion questions, feel free to post the questions on
the list.  I will also respond to private mails, but having the answers on
the mailing list allows others to learn from the question and answers.  As
well, if you don't think that the wiki page is clear enough, either edit it
or let us know and we'll do our best to improve it.

Matt
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