Re: Shelving / Checkpointing thoughts

Johan Corveleyn wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 25, 2017 at 3:33 PM, Julian Foad <julianfoad_at_apache.org> wrote:
[...]>> The Checkpoint feature could add the copy-and-modify facility
for the
>> log message.
>
> Yes, maybe we'll need to have some grouping structure / namespacing in
> the shelves for this. A "rack" or something :-). The rack carries a
> name ("savepoints", "feature A"); a single shelf in a rack is just
> 'svn shelve --rack "feature A"'; If I add more shelves to a rack, they
> get numbered. [...]
I think the terminology works best, and most in line with other tools
(p4, hg, bzr) like this:

  * "Shelving" or "to shelve" means putting something on a shelf. There
is one "shelf" per WC.

  * The thing we put on the shelf is called a "patch" or a "shelved
change", and is analogous to a book or a paper placed on the shelf. A
numbered version of a patch can be called a "checkpoint".

  * A series of checkpoint patches is a series of "patch versions" or a
"checkpoint series". I think this is simpler than introducing a new term.

- Julian
Received on 2017-08-25 16:59:44 CEST