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Announcing The Launch Of SPBS — the Simplest Possible Blogging System

schof — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 07:24:27 +0000

And by “Launch,” I mean “I’m starting to write it.” There’s a long way between that and a completed program. But you can check my progress at SPBS’ Google Code site: http://code.google.com/p/spbs/

I’ve written an introduction to SPBS, and the reasons I’m writing it here, at http://code.google.com/p/spbs/wiki/SPBSIntroduction

How to Remove All Subversion Folders From A Directory Tree

schof — Sat, 23 Jun 2007 22:20:10 +0000

Say you’ve got a Subversion source code tree checked out, and for whatever reason you want to remove all Subversion directories inside that tree. (The thing that makes a Subversion tree a Subversion tree is the presence of a “.svn” folder in every folder of the tree. If you had a complicated source tree with lots of subdirectories, it would take you forever to remove each one.)

You can remove all “.svn” directories starting below “~/svn/exampleproject” — change this to suit your system — with the following command:

find ~/svn/exampleproject -name “\.svn” -exec rm -rf {} \;

To make sure that the above command is going to do what you want it to do, you may want to first generate a list of what it will delete (I highly recommend it).

find ~/svn/exampleproject -name “\.svn” -exec echo “rm -rf {}” \;

How To Install Subversion in OS X

schof — Mon, 05 Mar 2007 00:28:41 +0000

The folks behind Subversion don’t produce an OS X binary, so they link to a third party who produced one. Unfortunately, the current regular version is 1.4.3, and the latest OS X binary is 1.3.

I found a different binary at Martin Ott’s site. I have no idea why his site isn’t linked from Subversion’s, but his binary is 1.4.3, the latest.

Simply run the installer in his package, and it will do ALMOST all that’s needed. However, you still won’t be able to run svn from the command-line, because the package installs it in /usr/local/bin, and that path isn’t in Apple’s default.

For those new to the terminal, the path variable is a list of directories where OS X should look for applications. This applies only to the command line. For instance, if you type “ls” on the command line, it will look for the “ls” program in each directory listed in the path. Since it finds it in /bin, it will run ls. The path is why running “ls” is the same as running “/bin/ls”.

To find out what your path is currently, enter the following command: “echo $PATH”

(Capitalization does matter.)

To add /usr/bin/local to your path, copy and paste the following line into your terminal:

echo “export PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/bin” >> ~/.profile

This will not affect the shell you’re running now, so type “exit” to leave the shell. Then hit CMD-N to get a new terminal, and type “svn”

You should get a message telling you to type “svn help” for more information. Success, svn is installed and configured properly.