Concerning Re: merge branch vs. commit trunk
Ben Collins-Sussman wrote on 23 Sep 2003, 11:03, at least in part:
> Jack Repenning <jrepenning@collab.net> writes:
>
> > When we say "cheap copy," we mean that the act of making the copy
> > (branch) is cheap. Once it's made, further work on the branch isn't
> > any more or less cheap than working on trunk.
>
> Correct. If you had made all your changes on the branch,
> progressively, you still would have had to a single 80 meg merge to
> the trunk. And that merge would have been: apply 80 megs of local
> changes to your 'trunk' working copy (by comparing with the branch),
> then commit. The final commit still would have been 80 megs of data.
I see. I had the idea that the merge would happen on the SVN
server, directly from branch to trunk. Anyway, as I see now, even
progressively committed changes on a branch would not have
worked here as everything I did were more or less global changes,
that is affected large numbers of files at once.
> Now, as to why the commit is grinding to a halt... that's a separate
> topic. Come step into our 'performance/scalability' trouble center,
> take a number and a seat. We have our best men working on it. :-)
Well, as the best men are often also those getting nervous when
being looked at them working I'll better take a three hours walk on
the dyke, even if the first autumn rainstorms hunt me ... ;-)
Jan Hendrik
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Received on Wed Sep 24 12:06:50 2003