Placing Project Metadata Into Subversion

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The IDE's Subversion support enables developer groups to synchronize project-specific metadata as well as the source files that make up their applications. Using Subversion, you can place project metadata, such as project properties files and Ant build scripts, under version control.

• When working with projects in Subversion, the physical location of a project relative to the location of projects and libraries on its classpath must be exactly the same on each system in order to avoid broken references. If any references are broken, the IDE displays a warning when you open the project. To avoid broken references, it is important to ensure that the location of projects in the remote repository corresponds to their location once they are checked out to a local working directory.

IDE Project Metadata Files

Depending on project type, the IDE generates different metadata files and stores them in the nbproject directory.

The types of project metadata files in the IDE include:

• nbproject directory
  • project.xml
  • build-impl.xml (standard projects only)
  • genfiles.properties (standard projects only)
  • project.properties (standard projects only)
  • private directory (standard projects only)
• build.xml

• You should not place your private directory into the repository as it contains information that is specific to your system's IDE installation. In addition, you should not put your dist or build directories into the repository. The IDE automatically ignores the private, build, and dist directories when running Subversion commands.

To place an IDE project under version control:

1. In the Projects window, right-click your project's node and choose Clean Project to delete the build and dist directories.
2. In the Projects window, add the project to the repository by right-clicking the project's topmost node and choosing Subversion > Import into Subversion.
3. In the Subversion Repository page of the Import wizard, specify the location of the Subversion repository as defined by the Subversion URL. Click Next.
4. In the Repository Folder page, specify the repository folder in which you want to place the project.
5. Enter a message describing your changes to the repository in the Import Message field.
6. Optionally, click Next to view a list of the files that will be imported.
7. Click Finish.

   The IDE uploads the project files to the repository and the Ouput window opens to display the progress.

• The IDE automatically ignores the private, build, and dist directories .

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Working with Subversion

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