Re: Subversion Practices?

FROM : Jerry LeVan
DATE : Wed Feb 06 20:37:54 2008

On Feb 6, 2008, at 2:14 PM, John Stiles wrote:

> Brady Duga wrote:

>>
>> On Feb 6, 2008, at 10:38 AM, Jerry LeVan wrote:
>>

>>> I am trying to use subversion with my Cocoa projects...
>>>
>>> It appears that merely opening an Xcode project will
>>> generate changes in the .xcodeproject file...

>>
>> *.xcodeproject "files" aren't files, they are folders (for the 
>> purposes of Subversion). When you commit a project (say it is 
>> called Foo), you will add the folder Foo.xcodeproject and the file 
>> Foo.xcodeproject/project.pbxproj - all the other files there 
>> (probably with your user name in them) should *not* get checked in. 
>> The .pbxproj file won't change unless you really change the project 
>> (add/remove files, change settings, etc).
>>

> That's not entirely true. If you have users on different versions of 
> Xcode, sometimes just opening the project is enough to modify it.
>
> Under the hood, whenever you open a project, Xcode actually reads in 
> the plist, parses it, and rewrites the file to disk. In typical 
> usage, the generated output is identical to what it read to begin 
> with, so there's no visible change, but in some cases this might not 
> be the case. Something as simple as a different type of line ending 
> could cause the entire file to look different, and some SVN 
> configurations might mangle this on your behalf. You can verify this 
> by opening the plist and adding a comment—it should get removed as 
> soon as you open the project. You can even try saving the plist in a 
> different format (binary? XML?) and watch Xcode convert it back to 
> its native format on open. It's kind of slick, actually.
>
>
>


So is the bottom line wrt the .xcodeproject "bundle":
    just keep the the file 'project.pbxproj' under version
    control and remove the *.mode1v3 and *.pbxuser from
    version control?

Thanks,

Jerry_______________________________________________

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