Re: Standard setup for multiple branch merges?

On Fri, 23 Jul 2004 15:24:04 -0500, Ben Collins-Sussman
<sussman@collab.net> wrote:

>
>Let me phrase it another way: the reason your current CVS process is so
>obsessed with tag creation is because CVS has no ability to name/capture
>changesets. Incessant tagging is the *only* way to approximate that
>sort of thing: "let's see, to port this bugfix, I need to tag the tree
>before committing, and tag it after committing, and then use those tags
>to merge the change to a different branch."
>
>In Subversion, the tagging isn't necessary. You just "port change r3981
>from branchA to branchB". All the correct files are part of the
>changeset already.

Thanks again. This sort of advice is very helpful.

The reason I'm asking this is that I'm revising the document

 <http://developer.r-project.org/CVStips.html>

to apply to Subversion instead of CVS. This page tells how to check
out working copies, commit changes, etc. You don't happen to know of
similar project-specific advice for some other project that I could
steal^H^H^H^H^Hconsult, do you?

Duncan Murdoch

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