Powerbuilder work with SVN, CVS on SourceForge
Posted by Frank Mao on October 25, 2007
I spent a few hours yesterday trying to let PowerBuilder work with CVS on SourceForge, lots of configuration drove me crazy. :pserver for anonymous, :ext for developer, etc…
Finally, I realized in WinCVS I should use :ssh instead of :ext to login as myself, same as PushOK CVS SCC plogin for PB. Shortly, another problem came to me: the version of PushOK CVS SCC I downloaded is too high for SourceSafe! I supposed to get 1.XX not 2.XX!
No hesitate, I switched to SVN. So simple to connect, only https:! And the speed was like flying, compare to CVS. I turned off the CVS option on my page then, no wonder.
One thing shocked me is, every check in from PowerBuilder to SVN will rise the rev number, within 20 minutes, my rev number on SF reached to 10. Need to find a way to do tag, or label, or something like that. The PushOK proxy seems doesn’t give me too many options.
Meanwhile, I downloaded RapidSVN, another file based GUI for SVN, didn’t figure out how to tag yet.
Rahul Jain said
Download TortoiseSVN. It integrates with context menu on Windows Explorer. You will see Branch/tag as a menu when you right click on the folder where the SVN files are located. For PB, the .sr* files will be stored in the SVN, so you can go to the root where your PBLs are the tag that folder.
Hope this helps.
Henrique Bastos said
Those awfull revision increments while manipulation your PB source in SVN occurs because the source control adapter needs to control exclusive checkouts, and to do so it alters a svn property of the source file in the subversion repository. It really sucks.
Another lame problem that some SCC Proxies do is to increment the revision number for each file in a commit list.
Newer versions of PushOK SVNSCC uses the svn lock property that is not versioned, eliminating the revision increments. It also do multi-file commits correctly.