Re: Suggestion: vendor branches

kurtharriger wrote:
> The online subversion book talks a bit about vendor branches here:
>
> http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.1/ch07s05.html
>
> The book describes keeping a copy of each vendor release in the
> repository. This is generally necessary to generate a changeset from
> previous revision to new revision. However in our case all our vendor
> drops already exist in another subversion repository. Since the merge
> command can pull the change sets directly from these repositories it
> doesn't seem necessary to keep the full source of each vendor drop in
> our repository also, what is important however is to keep track of the
> revision number last applied. Sorta like svn:merge-info.
>
> So I tweaked the procedure as follows:
>
> 1) Determine which the last applied vendor revision number:
> svn propget vendor-revision
> Note property value: %LAST_REVISION%
>
> 2) Determine current vendor version:
> svn info vendorurl
> Note Revision number: %REVSION%
>
> 3) Merge changesets into working copy (from directory corresponding to
> the trunk):
> svn propset vendor-revision %REVISION% .
> svn merge vendorurl@%VENDOR_REVISION% vendorurl@%REVISION% .
>
> This procedure seems simple enough I was thinking perhaps it could
> even be exposed through the UI with a create vendor branch enter url
> and optional revision the url would be imported and info saved into a
> couple of properties. Another UI command update vendor branch could
> ask you which revision to update to and then perform the merge into
> working copy, therefore making vendor branches easy to create and
> update and without creating unnecessary copies of the vendor source
> code (assuming it exists in another svn repository anyway).

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Stefan

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