[TYPO3-dev] Using SVN for the Forge

[Thomas "Thasmo" Deinhamer]

Okay, thanks to all your answers.

I'll dig a bit deeper and have a look
at some manual and howtos for SVN.

If I have questions, I'll be back! ;o)

Thanks for now,
Thomas


Xavier Perseguers schrieb:
> Hi Thomas,
> 
> Already some answers to your post, here's mine.
> 
>> I'm new to SVN and collaborative/social coding,
>> and I'd like to share my extensions and ideas on the forge.
> 
> As said by Peter, you should definitively have a look at SVN documentation:
> 
> http://svnbook.red-bean.com/
> 
> Have a look at all basic use of subversion (at least to start with) such 
> as adding files, removing files, moving files around, renaming them, 
> reverting changes, ...
> 
>> My development happens on an ubuntu server machine.
>>
>> What would be the best environment to establish a working
>> collaboration to the Forge (http://forge.typo3.org/), ensuring
>> to develop extensions, which will be supported by the actual
>> major versions of TYPO3, continous?
>> [...]
>> Is it enough to set up a single TYPO3 installation on my server,
>> creating a "SVN client repository" of this installation?
> 
> Yes.
> 
>> How should I set up SVN for this? Is it maybe possible to
>> create a symlink, which would hold the extensions or/and the
>> SVN repository client?
> 
> Prepare your website as usual, then go to typo3conf/ext/ and perform 
> checkout there with all extensions you want to use. E.g.,
> 
> $ svn co https://svn.typo3.org/TYPO3v4/Extensions/dbal/trunk dbal
> 
> to get the latest copy of DBAL. Then develop as usual and commit your 
> changes to the repository once in a while. That's it!
> 
> Have fun!
>