Operation Manual

USING DREAMWEAVER

Creating and Managing Files

Last updated 3/28/2012

Go offline

You might find it useful to avoid repository access during other file-transfer activities by going off-line. Dreamweaver

will reconnect to the SVN repository as soon as you invoke an activity that requires a connection (Get Latest Versions,

Commit, and so on).

1 Make sure that you’ve successfully set up an SVN connection.

2 Display the local version of your SVN files in the Files panel by selecting Local view from the View pop-up menu.

(If you are working in the expanded Files panel, the Local view is automatically displayed.)

3 Right-click (Windows) or Control-click (Macintosh) any file or folder in the Files panel and select Version

Control

> Go Offline.

Clean up a local SVN site

This command lets you remove locks on files so that you can resume unfinished operations. You should use this

command to remove old locks if you receive “working copy locked” errors.

1 Make sure that you’ve successfully set up an SVN connection.

2 Display the local version of your SVN files in the Files panel by selecting Local view from the View pop-up menu.

(If you are working in the expanded Files panel, the Local view is automatically displayed.)

3 Right-click (Windows) or Control-click (Macintosh) the file you want to clean up and select Version Control >

Clean Up.

About moving files and folders in Subversion-controlled sites

When you move the local versions of files or folders in a Subversion-controlled site, you run the risk of creating

problems for other users who might be synching to the SVN repository. For example, if you move a file locally, and

don't commit that file to the repository for a few hours, another user might try to get the latest version of the file from

the file’s old location. For this reason, you should always commit files back to the SVN server immediately after you've

moved them locally.

Files and folders remain on the SVN server until you've manually deleted them. So even if you move a file to a different

local folder and commit it, the old version of the file remains in the previous location on the server. To avoid confusion,

delete the old copies of files and folders that you've moved.

When you move a file locally and commit it back to the SVN server, the file’s version history is lost.

Synchronizing files

Synchronize the files on your local and remote sites

After you’ve created files in your local and remote sites, you can synchronize the files between the two sites.

Note: If your remote site is an FTP server (rather than a networked server), then synchronizing your files uses FTP.

Before you synchronize your sites, you can verify which files you want to put, get, delete, or ignore. Dreamweaver also

confirms which files have been updated after you complete the synchronization.