Re: Defining branch life-cycles in subversion

Greg Dickie <greg@max-t.com> writes:

> Yes, you are correct, I can do what you suggest. It just feels wierd
> to carry that property on all versions of the directory when I would
> really ever need the latest.... although I guess it could be
> interesting to document the life-cycle of a particular branch by
> following the transitions of the property.....

So you just want an unversioned property to attach to the branch
directory, and "float" along as new revisions appear, so that it's
just always attached to the HEAD revision?

Subversion is offering you a superset of that. You not only get that,
but as you say, the entire history of the property is preserved too.
So you can see that a branch was "completed" in a certain revision,
"approved" in another revision, and so on.

I guess this is a matter of opinion. IMO, the superset functionality
is much nicer. :-)

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Received on Fri Nov 8 17:13:32 2002