[C.CC USERS] having trouble committing files to /community directory

[Aaron Ryan]

Success!

Thanks for all of your help.  I just added some files to the repo for review
and help.

Any suggestions, comments and ideas are greatly appreciated.

Good beginning.

Aaron

On Fri, May 7, 2010 at 12:17 PM, Jon Simpson <me at jonsimpson.co.uk> wrote:

> Hi Aaron,
>
> On Fri, May 7, 2010 at 8:01 PM, Aaron Ryan <amrphoto1 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Martin and Jon,
> >
> > So, here's what i've done thus far:
> >
> > I checked out the directory:
> >
> https://projects.cs.kent.ac.uk/projects/kroc/svn/kroc/trunk/tvm/arduino/community/bringfire/
> >
> > I put the files that i want to upload into the local svn directory on my
> > hard drive: /home/aaron/bringfire
> >
> > I "cd" into /home/aaron/bringfire in the terminal.
> >
> > First I ran:
> > svn commit -m /home/aaron/bringfire/led-chase-files
> >  and received the log error message quoted in last email.
>
> You should ensure that whatever you want to add to the repository is
> added to subversion - just having the files in the right directory
> wont mean SVN adds them to the list of version controlled files. SVN
> keeps its own list of which files and directories it knows about.
>
> 'svn status' will let you see what the status of your files is - if
> its a question mark, the files aren't added - you can add them with
> 'svn add filename', where filename can be a wildcard specifier (*.c,
> *.occ, etc...) or an actual directory or file (directories are
> recursively added!)
>
> Once you can see files with an 'A' status (i.e. ready to add) in your
> svn status output, you can say svn commit to open an editor (as you've
> already encountered) - usually you'll add a one line comment about
> what you've changed on the top line - don't remove any of the existing
> contents. When you save the file and quit the editor, the commit
> happens.
>
> All of this is covered in the book in much better detail - that basic
> workflow link isn't too sizable and it's well worth getting your head
> around SVN as some of its suggestions when things go wrong are very
> bad ideas. (a lot of the --force-blah options are usually not what you
> should do).
>
> Cheers,
> Jon
>
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