In my previous post I talked about Mantis and SVN integration. One thing I was missing that I used to have is more control over the message(note) that gets posted. The source control plug-in supports the following arguments: $1 for branch $2 for revision $3 for timestamp $4 for commit message $5 for repository name $6 for changeset ID An [...]
Aug 152011
Recently I upgrade my mantis version from 1.1.8 to 1.2.6, first thing I ran into was my SVN hook that didn’t work anymore. In the 1.2.x they moved the checkin.php and implemented a fairly extensive plug-in system. With the new 1.2.x mantis takes the source control integration a step further, it now natively supports source control integration and integrates nicely [...]
Aug 152011
WebSVN offers a view onto your subversion repositories that’s been designed to reflect the Subversion methodology. You can view the log of any file or directory and see a list of all the files changed, added or deleted in any given revision. You can also view the differences between two versions of a file so as to see exactly what [...]
Aug 142011
Recently I changed something in an open source project and wanted to make the patch public. It had been a long time since I made a patch, so I forgot how(even though it’s fairly easy). So here’s a quick how-to. Make sure you have both the original and modified versions. In the example I’ll make a patch for a directory [...]
Aug 132011
By using the API created in part 1, integration with CakePHP or any other site becomes really easy. As said in part 1, we want functionality to add posts on the site and some user management. For this I already had 2 models, ‘News’ and ‘Member’, these models do everything related to user management and news posts on the [...]