Re: Making branches and typical patterns

"Russ Freeman" <russ.freeman@ergnosis.com> writes:
> I only want to work on and branch subproj2, so I switch subproj2 to point at a branch instead:-
>
> project\subproj1 (version1)
> project\subproj2 (branch)
> project\subproj3 (version1)
>
> Is this how people work with SVN or do only top-level projects get
> branched? If so, why?

Generally, in the repository we always branch the whole project,
because it doesn't cost any more than branching just a subdir, and you
never know when your changes will creep out of the subdir you started
them in.

But in the working copy, we just `switch' over whatever subdir we need
while we work, so we continue to get trunk changes in other
directories when we update.

(This might want to go into the book somewhere?)

-Karl

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Received on Mon Apr 7 20:02:23 2003