Re: Defining branch life-cycles in subversion

I'm starting to the the advantages.

Thanks to everyone who responded, looking forward to participating on the
list.

Greg

On November 8, 2002 11:11 am, Ben Collins-Sussman wrote:
> 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. :-)

-- 
Greg Dickie
just a guy
Maximum Throughput
greg@max-t.com
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