(forgot to reply all, again - Fwd-ed)
This is starting to sound like an argument for not using source
revisioning at all.
"If the developer doesn't comment a revision, we'll never know why he
made that change"
Hell, let's all pack it in, and never write another line of code, just
in case someone creates a bug, or someone uses the application to do
something we didn't intend.
<Serious mode on>
The alternative to "frankentags" is to checkout different versions of
different things, and commit them all as one revision, tag that, then
get the original HEAD code and re-commit it over the top. How is that
more useful? Surely this contains _less_ information, as we don't
even know what revision that tagged code came from, much less why!
On 16/11/06, John Waycott <javajohn@cox.net> wrote:
> Reinhard Brandstaedter wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > This is not a technical question, it's more a call for opinions on a
> > general work process with tagging and release management.
> >
> > What I'm concerned about is the use of complex tags (described here:
> > http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.0/ch04s06.html#svn-ch-4-sect-6.2)
> >
> > In short:
> > a complex tag is a tag created from a working copy that contains not one
> > single revision of a whole directory tree but where single
> > folders/subtrees or files are selectively checked out from different
> > revisions or even locations/branches.
> >
> > I'm talking about using complex tags for tagging stable versions or
> > releases of production projects. Why? Because developers and project
> > leads at my company do it that way and I think it's bad and have to
> > convince them it's bad
> >
> I would argue that complex tags are bad because there is little or no
> information stored that indicates why the complex tag was constructed
> the way it was. If you use earlier revisions of files A B and C but use
> the latest revisions of D E and F to get a stable release, why did you
> do that? What changes to A B and C prevent you from using the latest
> revisions? It is the historical "why" that is important to record. You
> could write a complex log message to describe it, but my bet is the
> developer will miss something.
>
> We forbid complex tags for this reason. Historically some groups did use
> them, but when it came time to debug field code, it was very, very
> difficult to figure out why certain revisions of files we selected.
>
>
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