Cloak/Uncloak SCM Directories in Dreamweaver
by Josh on Aug.04, 2005, under Development, Web
As part of an effor to better organize my site and all of the various source files I have floating around, I’ve begun to reorganize my site folders, and get everything put into Dreamweaver sites to help me manage it all.
I’ve also been using Subversion to manage all of my source files. The only problem was this: When I imported my site into SVN, it did it’s usual thing of creating a .svn folder for every folder. No biggie, however, while these are normally hidden in the Finder, they show up in Dreamweaver in the Files Panel, and when I tried to Synchronize my site, DW told me that I needed to upload nearly 3000 files.
I tried setting some cloaking options in the Site Manager, but no luck there. So I set about the task of manually cloaking each .svn folder. I did about five of them before I got tired of it, and decided to find an extension in the Macromedia Exchange. There I found an extension by “guppywon” that handles this for you. It installs two options into your Commands menu: “Cloak SCM Directories” and of course “Uncloak SCM Directories”.
These commands will run through your site and Cloak or Uncloak the SCM directories created by both SVN and CVS, and then let you know how many directories were affected. That’s about it, and doesn’t sound like much, but if you’ve had to deal with this issue, you’ll definately appreciate the time saved.
Link: Cloak/Uncloak SCM Directories in Dreamweaver
October 21st, 2005 on 10:33 AM
The problem I’m running into:
Oh the frustration
If anyone has a suggestion to get this work, please advise. Thanks
November 16th, 2005 on 4:54 PM
Hello, thanks for the post, I’d never found this extension otherwise. It does what it says.
I had even tried setting DW “*\.svn” with no luck.
This extension worked just fine for me.
(Though one would expect at v.8 macromedia should have this one covered)
August 17th, 2006 on 3:12 PM
Thank you. That worked exactly as promised for me.
September 24th, 2006 on 2:51 PM
I’ve got the same problem as Daniel - “O SCM directories cloaked.
Anyonse else experiencing this? There must be something in our setups. Our site is fairly goodsized (~500 pages) and gairly deep with some .svn directories 7 levels deep. How aboth the folks that got this to work?
Unfortunetly the authors website is gone - too bad.
December 14th, 2006 on 9:25 AM
Worked fine for me first time I used. Thanks!
March 4th, 2007 on 12:41 PM
Hello,
The URL redirects to an adobe exchange website, but it’s a generic one, I can’t find there the plugin.
WHat’s the real name of the plugin?
May 16th, 2007 on 9:50 AM
@Francisco:
1. Click on ‘Dreamweaver’ to select that Exchange Group
2. Click on ‘Search Exchange’
3. Type in ’svn’ in the search box
4. result returned
October 31st, 2007 on 12:19 PM
Worked fine the first time. If your getting “0 SCM directories clocked” try uncloaking all then redo. Make sure you’re in the right directory too.
April 18th, 2008 on 9:26 AM
Make sure you have ‘enable cloaking’ checkin in site settings! The menu items will be ghosted otherwise
September 23rd, 2008 on 8:32 PM
was anyone able to correct that issue of it showing 0 SCM? I just came across this excellent post and would love to be able to use this add on.
November 17th, 2008 on 1:41 PM
If you are using windows and TortoiseSVN, you can use Subweaver (http://code.google.com/p/subweaver/) to have SVN integration into dreamweaver. One of the newest features is a one click function to cloak all svn directories in the site.