On Nov 12, 2007 11:02 AM, Ian S. Worthington <ianworthington@usa.net> wrote:
> I'm about to start using svn, have spent the last few days reading manuals and
> what-not, and have a beginner's question:
>
> I need to load into svn z/tpf, an ibm product that is distributed partly in
> source, partly in object, locally modified then built locally. Twice a year
> or so major updates are distributed which are designed to replace the original
> source or object component. On a more frequent basis updates are also
> available that can be applied, in the same manner, if required.
>
> After doing the initial load of the svn repository, and making the required
> local changes, is their some easy way of applying this kind of bulk update,
> presumably into a branch, in the same way I did the initial load?
Presumably you'd use svn import for the first load, so that wouldn't
work for subsequent releases (you can only import into a given URL
once).
You're talking about a Vendor Branch. Conveniently, the official SVN
manual talks about Vendor Branches too.
http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.4/svn.advanced.vendorbr.html
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Received on Mon Nov 12 17:12:53 2007