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Re: get ready to wipe out your subversion/apr/ directory again

From: Karl Fogel <kfogel_at_galois.collab.net>
Date: 2000-07-13 21:40:24 CEST

Greg Stein <gstein@lyra.org> writes:
> [ as Greg sits meekly in the corner for missing Karl's warning against
> checking in, then going and doing it... ]

Greg is too polite to mention this above, but he gets a *lot* of email
and so didn't see my warning in time. He is hereby forgiven but not
forgotten... wait, no, that doesn't make any sense...

-Karl

> On Thu, Jul 13, 2000 at 02:32:30PM -0500, Karl Fogel wrote:
> > I'm going to have to reimport all of subversion/apr/ again; I'll let
> > you know when it's ready for update.
> >
> > For future reference, lest there is any doubt:
> >
> > Please, *never* commit a change to any file inside
> > subversion/apr/, except for README.svn.
> >
> > The best way to keep a vendor branch in sync is to always upgrade it
> > by re-importing; especially given that we have commit access on the
> > vendor's tree (via Greg Stein), there is no reason for us ever to make
> > local changes and then do vendor<-->local merges. However, having it
> > on a vendor branch is good because if we ever _do_ need to diverge,
> > even temporarily, we will already be on a vendor branch.
> >
> > But all of this will fall apart if we commit changes in
> > subversion/apr/ that overlap with changes in apache/apr, which is
> > what's been going on. Don't Do It. It's Bad. :-)
> >
> > Thank you,
> > -Karl
>
> --
> Greg Stein, http://www.lyra.org/
Received on Sat Oct 21 14:36:05 2006

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