dans.blog: Cloaking SVN Folders in Dreamweaver...

I just started using Dreamweaver for a site I'm working on. I'm keeping a repository of the files in Subversion, but found that trying to get Dreamweaver to ignore the SVN files when synchronizing is a bit of a pain.

Since I was in a quick solution, I ended up just setting Dreamweaver to show hidden files and then manually went to each .svn to cloak. Later on in the day, I did some searching to see if I could find an easier solution (because doing it manually really sucks.)

I found a blog entry by Josh Buhler in which he talks discusses cloaking/uncloaking SCM directories in Dreamweaver. He found a Dreamweaver extension called Cloak/Uncloak SCM Directories in Dreamweaver which appears to do the trick.

I have installed the extension, but I haven't tried it yet. Some of the people on Josh's blog claimed they had issues with the extension not finding their SCM folders. Hopefully the extension works, or I could be trying to figure out how to fix it.

Categories: Potpourri, HTML/ColdFusion

12 Comments

Matt
Jun 17, 2007 @ 11:48 PM

This did the trick for me, thanks for the info!
Jesse Davis
Jul 28, 2007 @ 6:16 PM

Same here -- Dreamweaver 8, Mac OS 10.4 Intel, Subversion. Just download it, run the Macromedia "Extension Manager" and click Install, install the extension, restart Dreamweaver. Open your site in DW if necessary. Do Commands->Cloak SCM Directories.

Voila.
Phil
May 16, 2008 @ 10:54 AM

Thanks for the heads up. Works like a charm on cs3, xp sp3 and SVN
will
May 17, 2008 @ 2:38 AM

am i missing something or doesn't svn take care of synchronization. this link might save you some frustration if you're trying to get svn+ssh working with dreamweaver.
will
May 17, 2008 @ 2:38 AM

ha. forgot the link. here: http://ezcto.com/2008/05/dreamweaver-svn-ssh/
Dan G. Switzer, II
May 17, 2008 @ 11:18 AM

SVN would only handle synchronization if you had repository hooks in place to do so and you were trusting that all commits are production ready.

We have hooks in place to push commits to a "staging" server--which gets an updated working copy after each commit. Once all the changes are reviewed and fully tested, then we sync the changes to the server.
Matt
Nov 10, 2008 @ 9:29 AM

The latest release of SubWeaver supports this as well. http://code.google.com/p/subweaver/ SubWeaver is an extension to integrate SVN commands into the dreamweaver ide through tortoisesvn.
thewinchester
Jul 9, 2009 @ 1:13 AM

Thanks for this, it's been bugging me for ages with CS3. Finally something to cloak those pesky svn folders and stop me from flipping back to windows to committ stuff using tortise.
Lew A
Jun 4, 2010 @ 10:01 AM

Brilliant! Thanks for the tip... the URL has changed though: http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/exchange/index.cfm?ev...
Dan G. Switzer, II
Jun 4, 2010 @ 10:43 AM

@Lew A:

Thanks, I've updated the link!
Craig Patik
Feb 6, 2014 @ 11:07 AM

That extension only works for CVS and SVN. If you're using Git, this extension will cloak .git directories as well as tie in support for TortoiseGit.
Craig Patik
Feb 6, 2014 @ 11:07 AM

Forgot the link: https://github.com/ChrisMcKee/gitweaver

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