Eclipse: svn:externals in cross-platform Phonegap folder structure?

Question

In Eclipse (on Windows) I created a cross-platform folder structure for Phonegap :

--phonegap_android 
   --assets
     --www         (symlink/junction to 'src')
       ...
--phonegap_ios   
    ...
--src
    index.html

Here's what I did to get this working :

• created an Android-project in Eclipse based on the phonegap-android folder.
• made a junction for the 'assets/www' folder to link with 'src' (using the Sysinternals command)
• created a svn-repository, for this entire project (the parent project that has the different folders for android, ios and src).

I can run the application now, but I have problems committing the project to svn.

The 'www' folder is a junction-folder, so when changes are made to this folder, I want this folder to commit to the real source folder : 'src'.

I tried different approaches :

• Setting an svn:ignore on 'assets' to ignore 'www', but then of course nothing in www is committed, when I commit the android-project in Eclipse.

• Setting an svn:externals on 'assets' to define 'www' as an external to svn://myproject/src, but then it still tries to commit everything in assets/www and I get an error 'No versioned parent directories'.

Any ideas how to get the www folder NOT committed, but at the same time get the src folder to get committed to the svn repository?

Answer 1

Dylan,

Following with svn:externals will work.

• Create Folder 'phonegap_android'
• Under 'phonegap_android' create folder 'assets'
• Commit them to svn repository 'svn://myproject/phonegap_android'
• Now for the 'phonegap_android' folder, set the svn:externals as follow
  • '../src assets/www'(if your svn path for src is at same level as phonegap-android svn://myproject/src which is in your case)
• On windows using tortoise svn, it will let you commit 'phonegap_android' folder with svn:external changes.
• Take svn updates and you are done.

Henceforth whatever you commit to phonegap_android/asset/www folder, it will be committed to src folder(svn://myproject/src)