[Anthill] Building from Subversion - checkout vs. update

[Jim Hague]

On Tuesday 6 December 2005 20:50, Andy Levy wrote:
> Is it possible to have anthill check for a working copy of my project
> in the working directory, and if one exists, only perform an svn
> update as opposed to a full checkout?

Not with Anthill OS (I've never use Pro). Adding such an option I guess would 
be fiddly, as you'd have to add an 'update' function to every revision system 
backend.

FWIW, texts on continuous integration often stress the importance of a clean 
checkout on each build, so you can be absolutely 100% sure you're not 
accidentally dependent on previous build artifacts.

As it happens, the project I cited earlier does some version/build number 
substitutions on the code during a release build before building the modules 
in question so exact version information is always available from the 
program. I'd need everything to be reverted before being updated...
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