Managing Your Project With Subversion

You want to track code changes in your Laravel project and aren't sure what to use.

Step 1 - Import an empty project

laravel:~$ cd myapp
laravel:~/myapp$ svn import --depth=empty . svn://myrepo/projects/myapp \
> -m "Initial import"

Step 2 - Check out the empty project into existing project

laravel:~/myapp$ svn checkout svn://myrepo/projects/myapp .

Step 3 - Delete unnessesary files

laravel:~/myapp$ rm .gitattributes
laravel:~/myapp$ rm .gitignore
laravel:~/myapp$ rm bootstrap/compiled.php
laravel:~/myapp$ rm app/storage/*/*

Step 4 - Ignore directory, add files

laravel:~/myapp$ svn propset svn:ignore vendor .
laravel:~/myapp$ svn update
laravel:~/myapp$ svn add a* b* c* C* p* r* s*
laravel:~/myapp$ svn propset svn:ignore compiled.php bootstrap/
laravel:~/myapp$ svn propset svn:ignore \* app/storage/cache/
laravel:~/myapp$ svn propset svn:ignore \* app/storage/logs/
laravel:~/myapp$ svn propset svn:ignore \* app/storage/meta/
laravel:~/myapp$ svn propset svn:ignore \* app/storage/sessions/
laravel:~/myapp$ svn propset svn:ignore \* app/storage/views/

Step 5 - Check everything in

laravel:~/myapp$ svn update
laravel:~/myapp$ svn commit -m "Initial import"

There may be an easier ways for your project. Here's a few alternatives:

• Create an empty subversion project to work with before creating your Laravel project.
• Use a graphical interface to manage the project in subversion.
• Import everything initially.

It's up to you.

A couple things to note ...

In Step 3

We deleted the files that Laravel will build automatically.

In Step 4

All those svn propset commands are to keep subversion from wanting to manage the vendor directory and contents of logs, cache, etc.