Talend project in SVN

Question

I need to use Talend Open Studio with a SVN. What is the folder that I should put in the repository?

Answer 1

Instead of storing the whole project in your SVN, you can export its content and put the build into your SVN. (We do this, it works well for one man show or a disciplined team.)

Pros:

• You won't need to make a commit because of minor changes that don't affect the generated source code.
• You will save a lot of space.
• You have complete control of what is put to SVN and what is not.
• If you ticked the "java sources" and "extract the zip file" checkboxes, you will also get plaintext source code. So you can use simple diff tools to see what exactly changed between your revisions.

Cons:

• You have to manually import new revision into your Talend studio before you start any work (if anything changed), and manually export it before the commit. This may take several minutes for large projects.
• If anyone forgets to do that, you risk that he works with old code and commits that. (That mistake can be found when doing a diff review on the generated source code before commit, but very few people do that.)