Plugin Developer

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Location: Russia Nizhny Novgorod
Occupation: University Student, Engineer/Programmer, IT Expert
Age: 23

For introduction and Windows guide looke here. For more information on how to use SVN, read the SVN Book.

Here is a basic guideline for POSIX system user. I suppose that you have installed Subversion command line client package regarding to your distribution.

Creating your repository copy

• Create a folder which will be used to store your local Seditio repository copy, e.g.
  
  BASH Code:
  
  
  $ mkdir /home/username/seditio
  $ cd /home/username/seditio


• Perform SVN checkout:
  
  BASH Code:
  
  
  $ svn checkout http://www.svn.seditioforge.com/seditio/trunk

Updating

• Enter your local Seditio repository copy and run update:
  
  BASH Code:
  
  
  $ svn update

Making patches

• Make sure you're creating a patch for clean unpatched repository copy.


• Modify original files on your local disk.


• Create a patch file using SVN diff in your local repo folder:
  
  BASH Code:
  
  
  $ svn diff > my_patch-v121-1.0.0.patch


• Pack the patch file before you provide it for download:
  
  BASH Code:
  
  
  $ bzip2 my_patch-v121-1.0.0.patch


• Now you may want to roll your repo copy back to original state:
  
  BASH Code:
  
  
  $ patch -p0 -R -i my_patch-v121-1.0.0.patch

Applying patches

• Download the patch package and unpack it into your local repo folder:
  
  BASH Code:
  
  
  $ bunzip2 my_patch-v121-1.0.0.patch.bz2


• Apply patch by invoking patch command:
  
  BASH Code:
  
  
  $ patch -p0 -i my_patch-v121-1.0.0.patch
  
  
• If something went wrong, you may roll back using an example given in stage 5. of the previous section.