On Feb 19, 12:23 pm, "AD7six" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Feb 19, 12:00 pm, "Grant Cox" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
>
> > I'm just getting to the deployment stage of our application, and have
> > realised that simply checking out our application from version control
> > on the server is pretty neat. However, the way I've got the
> > repository set up, my app does not include the Cake core (which is
> > it's own repository, as I generally use the CakePHP nightly SVN).
>
> > Now, I've seen SVN externals, but as far as I can tell they don't
> > actually include the foreign revision inside your own repository,
> > rather just records the foreign repository url. Plus, I don't think
> > that this will store my changes to the CakePHP core in my
> > application...
>
> > What I'm really after is a way to check out my app, the cake core
> > revision that my application was using for the checked out revision,
> > including any modifications I've made to the cake core. Is such a
> > thing possible? Can anyone recommend a better workflow than this?
>
> Hi Grant,
>
> I have found that using /cake as an external and saving a diff of the
> cake folder (to somewhere outside of /cake) as part of the build
> process, means that you can check out a project using externals on a
> different machine, apply the diff/patch and be up to date and good to
> go.
>
> The alternative of course is to setup a vendor branch (as Felix has
> hinted in the past ) but IMO that approach is better suited to those
> not wanting to regularly/automatically update their cake version. Also
> has the disadvantage of fattening up the svn repository which may or
> may not be a problem (the regularity with which the core gets updated,
> I wouldn't want to duplicate the cake svn version info in 2 places,
> manually, all the time).
>
> HTH,
>
> AD7six
PS. I forgot to point out that in most circumstances it's not
necessary (or a good idea) to edit the core at all. I have only found
it necessary to work around (short-lived) probems or to create a patch
to add to a ticket.
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