I have SVN set up on a server and have pushed the Xcode project onto the server. SVN has been working for committing changes made to a file or multiple files back to the Source Controlled copy. However I am unable to add new files (such as when creating a new View Controller or adding an image for example) to SVN. They exist just locally and I cannot figure out a way to get them into source control.
I tried committing the file and receive this message:
I have also tried right-clicking the file, source control > Add. But that option is grayed out:
Is there something wrong with the SVN setup or with the way I have checked out the repository? Committing changes to an already existing file works just fine.
Thanks, any help would be greatly appreciated!
Xcode is setup to use Git now. If you can switch to git you'll be a much happier camper.
use git init, git add . from command prompt first and use gitignore to add the xcuserdata file to the ignore list. Once you do a commit -m "Initial" from the command prompt you should be able to start committing from Xcode.
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I'm working on an iOS Xcode project whose previous developer has configured and committed to local git and remote git using his account. Now I want to delete every source control existing on the project (local and remote) and recreate a new one. How can I make everything fresh so that I can commit and use the source control? (I don't have the previous developer account.)
in order to delete your local git you need to open your file system where your project is located and delete the .git folder. please notice that this folder is hidden by default so you will need to show hidden files and folders before doing it.
Delete of remote repository should be done on the server. If for example your are using github.com then you need to go to github.com and inside your repository go to settings tab and on the bottom you will see the Danger Zone there you can delete your remote repository.
The easiest way is to remove the invisible .git directory at the root level of the project. From there, you can recreate the repository and any remotes.
Be warned, this will delete all history for this project!
To remove all local and origin branch from XCode 8 follow these steps :
1. Source Controll / ProjectName/ Configure ProjectName.
2. In Configure ProjectName Window select Branches tab.
3. Select any branch name from local or origin.
4. Click on "-" icon on bottom left.
That branch will be removed from local machine.
And for removing branches from Github server you can delete repos from server.
Like the Title already says:
I created a Xcode Project and i accidentally disabled : "Create Git Repository"
Does someone know, if i can enable it again ?
I don't want to delete this project and start from the beginning again
This button basically does git init.
So just call git init in your Terminal in the relevant project folder. Afterwards you can add remotes and do commits and pushes. Xcode will recognize the repository automatically.
I had some untracked files in my Xcode project and while working on the project I wanted to discard all the changes that I had made.
So I went to Source Control > Discard All Changes in Xcode (it seemed like such an easy option). But, to my surprise, git deleted all my untracked files.
Is this the expected behavior?
git does have a command to remove untracked documents : git clean -fd.
If XCode triggered this git command when running Discard all changes, I'm afraid this is bad news.
If such is the case, you will have to turn to Time Machine or undelete utilities to try and recover your deleted files. You can also send a bug report to the XCode team ...
It would seem weird for an IDE to have such an easy way to massively remove files from the disk, though. Try to read the documentation to see if git clean was triggered, or if the files were moved in some sort of secret place by XCode, or something like that.
I just started to work with Xcode and trying to add a Subversion repository on remote windows server. When I enter the location path of Subversion repository, it shows following error message:
Error Message :
“Host is not reachable.”
Please can anyone help? Thanks.
Setting up svn source control is always a pain even without Xcode, and Apple couldn't help on it with its integration to Xcode. It changed from version to version and the latest is similar since version 5, so the same is in Xcode 6.
The only problem with this solution that we always have to combine command line and Xcode GUI steps, but this is the only working solution so we will follow this, but using Xcode when it's possible.
As I made it several times but always run into various problems I decided to make a detailed and clear up to date description.
The server side
Even you could install the svn server on your machine it's not a safe solution even you work alone. You could lost your years of work with a faulted hard disk or any accident. So make it on a separate computer.
You need an svn server installation on it and a login. You could check it, just ssh into your server and use the command in terminal
which svn
If you get a version number you have svn possibly with a living repository directory on that server and you can reach it. The exact location is depending on your installation but in our case the main repository directory is: https://myserver.me.com/Library/Subversion/Repository/
You will create your new repository under this directory like
https://myserver.me.com/Library/Subversion/Repository/MyNewApp
1. Create a NEW repository
Login to your server (in our case myserver.me.com) then open the Terminal utility and use the svnadmin create command to create a Subversion repository.
For example, if you want a repository named MyNewApp in the existing location /Library/Subversion/Repository/, you would enter the command:
svnadmin create /Library/Subversion/Repository/MyNewApp
This will create the main structure of the repository. We log out from server to avoid any problem and don't use it directly from now, just from the client side.
The client side
2. Create the folder structure
Note: Creating a hierarchy for your repository is optional. It's not needed in order to get svn to work properly, but if you're
planning on keeping multiple projects under source control, then it's
a good idea to get organized before you start importing those
projects.
We will prepare the folder structure on the client then we will transfer it to server with an svn command named "import".
1.First create a new temporary folder anywhere on your client - for example on your Desktop -with the project/repository name in Finder in our case MyNewApp:
MyNewApp
Then make 3 other folders in it with the exact name:
trunk
branches
tags
2.Import the folder structure to the svn server
Login to you client with Terminal utility and using "cd" command go into the project folder:
cd MyNewApp
Tip: The easiest way to get the full path to a folder into Terminal
without risking typing errors is to first type the cd command and
enter a space, and then drag the folder from the Finder and drop it at
the end of the Terminal command line.
3.Then use the svn import command from Terminal:
svn import . https://myserver.me.com/Library/Subversion/Repository/MyNewApp -m "Initial import of directories for MyNewApp project."
or
svn import . svn+sshtunnel://yourLoginName#194.149.155.124/Library/Subversion/Repository/MyNewApp -m "Initial import of directories for MyNewApp project."
The second is the most secure usage with ssh keys where 194.149.155.124 is the server's IP address. svn+sshtunnel:// means it use svn and sshtunnel but it could be any other depending on the login mechanism like https:// or svn:// The "." after "import" command is important it means the same folder where you are.
If the import was successful, you should see something like this:
Adding trunk
Adding branches
Adding tags
Committed revision 1.
Note: This means this is the first committed version you loaded to the server to MyNewApp repository and it's under revision control by
svn with a message just referencing what you did, and you could use
what you like. Now that you have imported the directory structure for
your project into the repository, you can now delete the MyNewApp1
directory on your computer that you just created. Doing this will help
to prevent confusion later, when you import the real project.
3.Import the Xcode project into svn
Using terminal navigate to you Xcode project and make sure again that you are in the project folder
cd MyNewApp
then use the following svn command again:
svn import . https://myserver.me.com/Library/Subversion/Repository/MyNewApp/trunk/MyNewApp1 -m "Initial import of MyNewApp1 project."
or with an exact location on your computer /Users/myUserName/Apps_Developing/myNewApp
svn import -m "New Import" /Users/myUserName/Apps_Developing/myNewApp https://myserver.me.com/Library/Subversion/Repository/MyNewApp/trunk/MyNewApp1
If the import was successful, you should see the long list of added files...
Note: This means that you import the MyNewApp1 (you could use any
name) project to the trunk under svn. The trunk extension is important
because of naming convention used by Xcode too. Again you can include
any comment you want in the quotation marks, but be sure your comment
will be meaningful to anyone using the repository.
4.Add repository in Xcode
Now launch Xcode and go to Preferences --> Accounts and add new repository with the "+" on the left lower corner
+ Add Repository...
Enter the repository address
https://myserver.me.com/Library/Subversion/Repository/MyNewApp
Note: Don't use the trunk etc. you need the root of the repository here!
5.Checkout the project to create a working copy
In Xcode go to Source Control --> Check Out...
Enter the repository address of the trunk (or branches or tags if you used them earlier)
https://myserver.me.com/Library/Subversion/Repository/MyNewApp/trunk
then give the name of the working copy folder and its location
Note: trunk is important!!! Just type it after the root, if you miss it there will be trunk etc. folders in your folder! Directory name is
as you like for example MyNewAppWorking...then choose location on
your computer like Apps_Developing in our case.
i just updated to Xcode 5 and my project is using GIT, after update completed suddenly question marks appear in project navigator file near each file.
when i am trying to Commit i don't see what files have been changed, i cannot pull also
and when i am trying to push it gives :Push Success" message but the repository on GitHub don't updated.
You probably did not set up your git repository properly. There are ways of adding external git repositories, but they tend not to work well for github (in my experience) and always lead to these sorts of issues.
If you want to set up a remote git repository through github on XCode these are the steps you should take.
Make the repository on github. Make sure to add the .gitignore file for Objective-C.
Clone the repository.
Go to XCode, press "create new project"
Create the project in the folder you cloned the repo to. I always name it the exact same thing, but I don't know if that is necessary.
Make sure not to select create local git repository.
This will definitely create a project that is under version control by a remote git repository hosted on github.
Quick fix is to Create or Save the new project 'outside' the directory (say Desktop) that is not linked to your github/bitbucket