In a message dated: Thu, 10 Jul 2003 20:05:50 BST
Philip Martin said:
>pll@lanminds.com writes:
>
>>>>>>> On Thu, 10 Jul 2003, "Philip" == Philip Martin wrote:
>>
>> Philip> r6394 is when the branch was made, so changes were committed
>> Philip> to the branch more recently than that. Is this intentional?
>>
>> I created the branch, then made changes to CHANGES, svn_version.h,
>> and committed those changes. At some point, these were ported back
>> to /trunk.
>>
>> Intentional? Ahm, not in a pre-meditated manner :) Chalk it up to a
>> learning curve? I don't quite know how to answer that question.
>>
>> Do you feel I did something incorrectly? If so, please explain, so I
>> can get it right for 25.1 :)
>
>It's not a big problem, but I think the branch point is the wrong
>revision to have in the CHANGES file, particularly if non-trivial
>changes are then made to the branch.
Hmmm. I see your point. Though, I would expect in general though,
that a release manager should probably not be making non-trivial
changes in a release branch. *I* certainly am not qualified to be
doing so :)
>> Philip> r6284 was the last change on the branch before it was tagged
>> Philip> (which means mprice had to guess the revision number in
>> Philip> advance!).
>>
>> I'm not sure how to respond to this. Are you saying I should have
>> done it's mprice's way, or that he was taking a change by guessing?
>> I'm unclear as to what your concerns are. Can you explain a little
>> more please?
>
>I don't really know what the correct procedure is--I've never made a
>release!
Wanna learn? I can show you ;)
>Guessing the revision is a bit of a hack, although it does produce a
>neat result if it works (and it will usually work as the repository is
>not that busy, on the odd occasion when it doesn't you can always try
>again). If you don't want to guess then you could use a placeholder,
>xxxx say, when committing the CHANGES file. Then do a final commit on
>the branch that only changes the placeholder. That way it would only
>be "trivially" out of date.
Hmmm. okay. I'll try to keep that in mind for next time.
Thanks,
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