# Piston & svn up first time

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/piston-svn-up-first-time/110306>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [July 25, 2007, 3:04am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/piston-svn-up-first-time/110306 "2007-07-25T03:04:45Z")\
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**Author:** ![jemminger](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/c0e974/32.png) [@jemminger](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/jemminger)\
**Post date:** [July 25, 2007, 3:04am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/piston-svn-up-first-time/110306/1 "2007-07-25T03:04:45Z")

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hi all,

yeah, this isn’t a rails thing specifically but the piston list on  
rubyforge looks empty? anyhoo you guys are smart so maybe someone  
will know:

i’ve just run ‘piston convert vendor/plugin’ to pistonize all our  
plugins… this worked fine for me. the problem is other team members  
now trying to svn up… they all currently have copies of these  
plugins marked as svn:external, but now the repos says they actually  
belong to the project thanks to piston, and so are now in the way when  
svn tries to add the new plugin files.

what’s the best solution here? rm -r vendor/plugins; svn cleanup; svn  
up ? i think we tried that and got errors… eventually a total wipe  
and checkout of the project works but that seems like excessive force.

thanks for your input.  
jeff

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**Author:** ![jemminger](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/c0e974/32.png) [@jemminger](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/jemminger)\
**Post date:** [July 25, 2007, 7:25am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/piston-svn-up-first-time/110306/2 "2007-07-25T07:25:57Z")

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I _just_ installed piston last night. I’m not sure why you’d get  
errors for rm -rf vendor/plugins, then svn up.

Can you post the error here?

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**Author:** ![jemminger](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/c0e974/32.png) [@jemminger](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/jemminger)\
**Post date:** [July 25, 2007, 4:56pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/piston-svn-up-first-time/110306/3 "2007-07-25T16:56:54Z")

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On Jul 25, 1:24 am, JAWspeak [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote:

> I _just_ installed piston last night. I’m not sure why you’d get  
> errors for rm -rf vendor/plugins, then svn up.
> 
> Can you post the error here?  
> Maybe… it wasn’t me getting the errors 😉 I’ll see if I can have  
> them recreate it again.