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On some earlier posts (tagged scplugin) I was trying to get scplugin working on my Mac (OS X 10.4.6). It seems like the problem may be due to subversion (svn) failing to communicate with my SMB-based repository. To test that, I made a local repository and created a test project within it.

First, let’s make sure DarwinPorts is up-to-date:

$ port sync Error: /opt/local/bin/port: port sync failed: sync failed doing rsync

Doh! I always forget to sudo that command…

$ sudo port sync Password: $ sudo port selfupdate DarwinPorts base version 1.200 installed Downloaded DarwinPorts base version 1.211 Configuring, Building and Installing new DarwinPorts base selfupdate done! $ port version Version: 1.211

(Just because I’m paranoid…)

Okay, now let’s see what version of svn I have installed, and compare that to what’s available from DarwinPorts:

$ svn −−version svn, version 1.3.0 (r17949) compiled Apr 4 2006, 11:47:42 $ port info subversion subversion 1.3.1, devel/subversion (Variants: mod_dav_svn, no_neon, no_bdb, mac-os-x-server-mod_dav_svn, tools)

Yep, the 1.3.1 version has made it into DarwinPorts so let’s upgrade that:

$ sudo port upgrade subversion −−−> Fetching subversion yadda yadda yadda −−−> Installing subversion 1.3.1_0 −−−> Activating subversion 1.3.1_0 −−−> Cleaning subversion $ svn −−version svn, version 1.3.1 (r19032) compiled Apr 20 2006, 15:31:38

(Paranoia again…)

Cool, the tools are up-to-date, so now it’s time to make a new local repository.

$ svnadmin create /path/to/local/repository $ svn import -m “Creating testproj” testproj/ file:///path/to/local/repository Adding testproj/some_file Committed revision 1.

Now let’s checkout a copy of the project and see how it looks in Finder.

$ svn checkout file:///path/to/local/repository/testproj svn: URL ‘file:///path/to/local/repository/testproj’ doesn’t exist

Oops, looks like I screwed up the repository import. I’ll just check out the whole repository for now, and rtfm for help with project importing later.

$ svn checkout file:///path/to/local/repository/ A svn_repository/some_file Checked out revision 1.

A quick perusal with Finder doesn’t show any visual svn status indicators, but after I made a change to the file I got to see scplugin’s “red bang” over the file icon, indicating that the file was out of sync with the repository. Woo hoo! Right-clicking or control-clicking on the changed file presents me with a Subversion context menu, from which I selected commit:

Sending some_file Transmitting file data . Committed revision 2. Process finished with exit status 0.

That looks pretty good. Unfortunately, scplugin hasn’t changed the status indicator in Finder–it’s still showing the red bang, even though the working copy and the repository are now in sync. Relaunching Finder doesn’t change this. Hmm…

Well, that’s some progress–at least subversion is working! I’ll play with scplugin some more and see what I can find out.