> On 24/06/2014, 10:02 AM, Simon Large wrote:
> > On 24 June 2014 04:37, Duncan Murdoch <murdoch.duncan_at_gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >> I'm working on a project (R) with a number of other people. We
> >> generally don't like to have things committed to the trunk until they
> >> are ready to go, passing tests, etc. This means development of
> >> changes that take several days can be a little tricky.
> >>
> >> I think the official svn way to do it is by branching, but the
> >> trouble with that is that merging other people's trunk changes into
> >> the branch can be tricky unless done very frequently, and it's a lot
> >> of work if done frequently.
> >>
> >> What I've been doing instead is saving patches of my changes, then
> >> reverting, updating the trunk, and re-applying the patch. This seems
> >> easier.
> >
> > Huh? Why would you do that? Create patch/revert/update/apply patch is
> > exactly the same as just updating your changed working copy, and a lot
> > more error-prone. That is the whole point of update - to merge trunk
> > changes into your own possibly modified working copy.
>
> The problem is when the change takes a few days to complete, and I need a
> clean working copy for other purposes before it's done, e.g. if someone tells
> me about an unrelated bug that needs fixing urgently.
So, just do another checkout.
>
> A different strategy would be to make a copy of the whole working copy and
> work there, but unlike branching or my strategy, that doesn't allow
> intermediate steps to be saved, or easily allow the work to be continued on a
> different computer from the one where I started. I find it's also error prone
> to have multiple nearly identical source trees on the disk:
> I can easily find myself writing changes to the wrong one.
>
> Duncan Murdoch
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