Getting started with Google Code
Step one: Decide to host a new one-person project on Google Code (in case laptop dies, server is struck by lightning, etc. Usually use GitHub but wanted to try GCode for a change.)
Step two: Spend a while fumbling around with various instructions in different places.
Step three: Write down what you actually did so the future you can refer to it when getting stuck — and maybe others will benefit, too!
Creating the project
To make a new Google Code project follow this link. It checks the project name against Sourceforge, so if you’re just hosting a personal project, pick a name that’s unlikely to be taken. Note: You need to license your code under one of the open source licenses, so if it’s commercial private super sekrit stuff, this isn’t the place to put it.
Getting set up locally
GCode uses Subversion, so what you need to do is import your current codebase and then checkout again. How to do this was surprisingly buried as a comment on GettingStarted, rather than being in the guide itself.
$ cd .. # out of your pre-svn project directory, YOURLOCALDIR/
$ svn import YOURLOCALDIR https://YOURPROJECTNAME.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/YOURLOCALDIR -m 'initial import'
$ rm -rf YOURLOCALDIR/ # you don't need it, you will checkout from google
$ svn checkout https://YOURPROJECTNAME.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/YOURLOCALDIR YOURLOCALDIR --username yourusername
(Being paranoid, I just moved my local dir rather than rm -rf initially. I’m also using a directory under /trunk to stop things getting messy, and checking out into a directory with that name locally. You can change that.)
You’ll be prompted to store a certificate for googlecode.com (being unparanoid, I hit ‘accept (p)ermanently’) and then prompted for a password. This is not your Google password. It’s the password given on your Googlecode.com Settings page, and it can be regenerated if needed.
Making changes
If you’re a one-person project and you just want to update from one machine, set up a script that’ll add any new files and then commit everything, and run that as part of your build/test/end-of-day procedure, whatever works for you.
Save:
#!/bin/bash
svn add * --force
svn commit
into a file called update_svn.sh or similar, then chmod +x update_svn.sh to make it executable, and Bob’s your uncle. (It’s very basic, doesn’t do anything with files you might delete for a start.)
Couple of configuration things to finish off with. Firstly, you might as well ignore update_svn.sh in your SVN updates; you should be able to run it from outside your code directory, which is probably the easiest thing (add the directory into the commands). Or run the command svn propset :ignore "update_svn.sh" . to set a specific exclusion for that file, hence the –force option in the script.
Secondly, svn commit pops open an editor for you to enter your last commit message. If you actually don’t care about this (bad practice!) alter the command to something like svn commit -m 'Another update' (or use bash magic to insert the current date, etc). My problem was I do care, but the default editor is some abomination that isn’t vim, so a quick edit of ~/.subversion/config (set editor-cmd) solves that problem.
Hacks
Apparently you can do cool stuff like twitter new SVN updates as well. Maybe not.. for now!
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