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Automation Interface, Add-Ins and Tools / Re: Difficulties with Subversion integration

« on: September 22, 2008, 10:43:38 pm »

We've migrated the model to a SQL Server database and are managing user access via a group set up using the Security feature and by enabling "Require User Lock to Edit". Rather than version control we are going to rely on routine backups of the database. This seems to solve all our problems and certainly provides adequate performance. Thanks for your help, everyone.

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Automation Interface, Add-Ins and Tools / Re: Difficulties with Subversion integration

« on: September 12, 2008, 05:14:29 pm »

This whole source-control implementation, it has to be said, is extremely confusing. I've just been trying to explain to a colleague that he needs to open his local copy of the EAP file and apparently won't get the updates from Subversion without doing a Checkout, and frankly I don't understand it myself. "Get All Latest" does not fetch the changes he checked in yesterday. Going to Tortoise to get the XML does not have any effect on the model when I open it. The only way to get changes seems to be to do a Check Out, which takes several minutes. If EA doesn't support text-based merging and multiple concurrent edits to the XML then just what is the point in generating it at all? Why not just put the EAP file in Subversion and manage it using Tortoise?

Not happy.

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Automation Interface, Add-Ins and Tools / Re: Difficulties with Subversion integration

« on: September 11, 2008, 11:39:37 pm »

I have been looking into precisely that second alternative, on the presumption that EA probably doesn't support merging at all. Merci vielmal.

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Automation Interface, Add-Ins and Tools / Difficulties with Subversion integration

« on: September 11, 2008, 08:24:27 pm »

Greetings. We have bought 5 floating licenses for EA and MDG Integration and are attempting to reverse-engineer a large project which is source-controlled using Subversion. The XML file created is already immense - 70MB - and tends to lock Trac for half an hour when anyone clicks on an entry, so we have created a separate repository. Despite EA having specially created an XML version of the model for source control we find that it can only be locked exclusively and edited by one user at a time, effectively invalidating the "floating" aspect of the license. It is very important to us that more than one user be able to work on the model at once. Subversion supports merging of edits on code source, so presumably it would not have a problem with XML. It appears to be EA which is enforcing this restriction. Could someone please advise as to how we can configure our model for multi-user editing?

Best regards...

Elliott Bignell
Micro Innovation
St. Gallen, CH