Make a directory a working copy without checkout? - asp.net

So I am doing a project for my school but the problem is my school computers run deep freeze. Is there any way I can use SVN and make a directory a working copy without checking out? Does anyone know how SVN remembers if a directory is a working copy? Is there some config file I can save on my network drive?
Thanks

SVN knows if the directory is a working copy by the presence of a hidden .svn directory which contains information about the working copy.
As far as a working copy without checking out, I think what you can do is do a checkout with empty depth. So from the SVN command line:
svn checkout http://url/to/repository trunk --depth empty
This will make a working directory with nothing in it, and you can later do an update to actually pull the content.

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Stop Tracking CVS Files Locally?

I accidentally checked out a bunch of files in an undesired CVS directory, causing me to run out of disc space. How do I undo the action safely? Theoretically, I’d think running (Unix) rm -r on the dir and then redo’ing the checkout for the correct path would work but I don’t want to risk causing potential alterations to the repo itself. I can’t seem to find anything online that explains how to remove checked out files from local view only. Guidance appreciated.
You can just delete your local CVS checked out files. Nothing on the CVS repository will be changed. The CVS repository is only changed when you do a cvs commit command (and cvs tag and a few other CVS commands).
You can also move your local checked out files to another directory.

Work by team with git on localhost

I am a beginner to this topic and I start developing a part of the special theme on wamp (localhost) and another teammate work on the remaining part.In this regard, think that I should use Git but I do not know what folders (wamp and wp and theme and plugin) put in the repository and which client of git is more suitable for us (all of us do not have much knowledge and little time to do it). please guide me.
anything that needs installation keep it outside of git.
any file which is specific to your machine and local settings , keep t in .gitignore
all the files and folders that are required to setup the project in any new machine + any files that would be changed by your teammates , include in the git.
ideally, the git init should be done in the project root. ou can make a branch for every theme and merge later when finished.
I'd initialize GIT in the root directory of the template itself since you only make changes in that specific folder.
In this case, each template/theme can be considered as one single GIT repository.
Hope this answers your question.

local dir replace, incoming dir edit upon update?

I have a conflict and I am unsure how to resolve it.
The error I get when doing svn udpate is:
Tree conflict on 'wp-content/plugins/eventON'
> local dir replace, incoming dir edit upon update
Select: (mc) keep affected local moves,
(r) mark resolved (breaks moves), (p) postpone,
(q) quit resolution, (h) help:
I do not understand what this is trying to tell me.
I would like it to replace the local version of the web server's plugins/eventON with the version that is in the SVN repo.
Background info:
The error message may be the result of deleting the folder that was being versioned through Wordpress admin panel, and then copying another one in the same location (a bad attempt at updating a plugin while forgetting how SVN works).
I guess that running the update through Wordpress deleted the .svn folders that were present in the plugin (the needed stuff for SVN to work properly).
So you could delete the new, unversioned eventON folder that you have copied in your repo, and run a svn update from one directory above (wp-content/plugins), in order to retrieve the old, versioned plugin.
If it does not work, it may be easier to delete the repository and checkout a fresh version...
Then, you will be able to update your plugin manually through SVN, and commit it.
As long as you already know that you want the server's version and not the local, this shouldn't be too difficult to resolve.
Identify which files are conflicted with svn status.
Since you want to keep the repository's version, you probably want to remove any conflicted files that svn has added from your working copy. They will have an A next to them in the output of svn status. In your case you should probably back them up first, since svn can't get them back for you since they're not in the repo yet. Now use svn delete --force my/fileToDelete. You don't need to delete anything not related to the tree conflict if you have made other changes you want to keep.
Run svn resolve --accept=working my/treeConflictFolder on the remaining folder that is conflicted (it will have a capital C next to it in the output of svn status)
The tree conflict should now be resolved, so you should be able to commit and update normally.
Further reading: http://svnbook.red-bean.com/nightly/en/svn.tour.treeconflicts.html

Forgot to backup my database before reinstalling WAMP

I uninstalled and reinstalled my WAMP earlier today. I backed up my /www directory but totally forgot about my database (phpmyadmin). I didn't delete my C:/wamp directory, i just reinstalled on top of it.
Does this mean my databases are gone forever? Is there a way to retrieve them? Next time i'll know to export a dump of my databases before I meddle with the installation, I guess I had to learn this the hard way...
Thanks for your help.
That depends if you deleted the data directory or not. By default, wamp's data directory is c:/wamp/bin/mysql/mysql5.x.x/data check there and see if you have some folders with the names of your old databases. In those folders there would be a bunch of .frm, .MYD, and .MYI files assuming you are using myisam. If those files exist then you can recover. Just make sure the datadir in my.ini is pointing to the directory where your database are and restart mysql. It should fix itself automatically.
If you use innodb tables then it's a little more complicated but can be done. Those would be stored in files named ibdata1, ibdata2, etc.
If you don't have any of those files then I'm afraid you're out of luck.
I was able to retrieve mine on windows 7 by doing the following
Open Computer by clicking the Start button , and then clicking Computer.
Navigate to the folder that used to contain the file or folder c:/wamp/bin/mysql/mysql5.x.x/data
Copied it just in case I needed to revert
Right-click it, and then click Restore previous versions. ...
Double-click a previous version of the folder that contains the file or folder you want to restore.

could not guess version control system

recently, i upgraded to Flex Hero 4.5 and created a new workspace. Then, i imported a project from the former workspace and started working. when i tried to upload the project from the new workspace to codereview, i got the error message: could not guess version control system. Are you in a working copy directory? How does one resolve this issue?
thanks
I have read somewhere that i need to checkout my svn but i thought that you only checkout when you want to get a folder/file from the svn.
Sounds like you've got a bit of a mess unfortunately. Hopefully you're not in the habit of doing a ton of changes without checking in. I would suggest you:
Back up your latest changes to a safe location
Check out the project from SVN into your new workspace (which is what you should have done initially) - creating a brand new project folder
Merge the changes you've made into the now-correctly-versioned copy of your project (you could do this by just copying files from the "latest"/project backup folder overwriting the SVN versioned files, but if you do--do NOT overwrite any .svn folders). You could also use a tool such as WinMerge or WinDiff to find differences between the two projects (of course ignoring .svn folders).
If you have a small number of changes it shouldn't be bad, but if there's a lot, you might want to follow SolarBear's branch suggestion, if WinMerge isn't going to cut it.
If I understand correctly your latest comment, you did a svn export on your code. The export command, as the doc mentions, creates a "clean" directory tree, i.e. without the .svn directory. So basically, these are files not controlled by SVN; also, you lose all the history of your files. The best way would have been, I think, to do a checkout in your new workspace and then work from there. It could take some time, but it's much easier to manage afterwards.
One possible way to make this work would be to checkout a clean copy your code somewhere safe and then merge your changes into this clean copy. However, if your trunk or branch changed a lot in the meantime, this could be very, very tedious. I could then suggest to branch your trunk, checkout that new branch, slowly merge your changes into that branch and when you're done and everything's working OK, merge the branch back into the trunk.

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