Develop with sandboxes

MapFish SVN includes a sandbox directory. People registered to the MapFish trac have SVN R/W access to this directory.

Getting started

• create your own sandbox

svn mkdir http://svn.mapfish.org/svn/mapfish/sandbox/<username>

(obviously, replace <username> with your actual user name)

• copy MapFish HEAD into your sandbox

svn cp http://svn.mapfish.org/svn/mapfish/trunk/MapFish http://svn.mapfish.org/svn/mapfish/sandbox/<username>/MapFish

• go develop cool stuff!

The sandbox directory is checked out in a web directory every half an hour. That web directory is accessible at this URL http://dev.mapfish.org/sandbox/. With that, people will be able to browse your sandbox and see your work at live!

Merge with trunk

Often, you will want to keep your sandbox synchronized with MapFish trunk.

• first get the revision number of your last trunk merge

svn log --stop-on-copy http://svn.mapfish.org/svn/mapfish/sandbox/<username>/MapFish

(when you start, this it is the earliest revision you see. On successive merges it is the revision that resulted from your mast merge (look for the last 'merging from trunk' comment)

Example:

r472 | elemoine | 2008-04-29 20:30:50 +0200 (mar, 29 avr 2008) | 2 lines

svn merge -r 424:HEAD trunk/MapFish

In this example, <last_merge_rev_num> is 472

• merge

cd <local checkout of sandbox>
svn merge -r <last_merge_rev_num>:HEAD http://svn.mapfish.org/svn/mapfish/trunk/MapFish .

(you may consider doing svn merge --dry-run first)

• commit

svn commit -m "Merging from <last_merge_rev_num> to HEAD"

Create patch against trunk

svn diff --old=http://svn.mapfish.org/svn/mapfish/trunk/MapFish --new=http://svn.mapfish.org/svn/mapfish/sandbox/<username>/MapFish