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Re: On using svn for submitting patches

From: <kfogel_at_collab.net>
Date: 2003-10-10 04:41:03 CEST

Marc Singer <elf@buici.com> writes:
> My first approximation is to let the trunk reflect the published
> development process with a branch for each line of development. For
> example, a bug fix would be pursued on a branch of its own. Likewise,
> new features are developed in a branch per submittable chunk.
>
> The questions are
>
> Is this a reasonable method for developing 'patches'?
> Is there something better?

I'm not sure what you concretely mean by "developing 'patches'", but
this is a reasonable way to handle multiple related lines of
development. When a bug is fixed on one line, and is known to apply
to others too, use 'svn merge' to port it across. Try to keep
experimental branches short-lived: when the experiment is done, merge
the changes into some more permanent line and remove the branch.

That's my $0.02, YMMV :-).

-K

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