Re: Subversion Practices?

FROM : John Stiles
DATE : Wed Feb 06 20:52:59 2008

Yes.

Jerry LeVan wrote:
>
> 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