Re: subversion question

On Thu, Sep 23, 2004 at 08:54:18PM +1200, Paul William wrote:
[...]
> I need to create a copy of a website (site1 - which is managed with
> subversion) called site2. site2 will be identical to site1 except I will
> be making changes to a few files.
>
> The problem is that site1 changes very often and I need those changes
> reflected in site2.
>
> Is there a way to do this in subversion? I really don't want to be
> making a copy of site1 and apply site2 patches every week :(
[...]

It would seem to me that a simple branch-and-tag procedure should
work (unless I'm missing something?):

- start off by making a branch of site1 (say, in /branches/site2)
- tag current version of site1 (say, as /tags/1.0)
- make necessary changes to make it suitable for site2
- continue making frequent changes to site1
- when it's time to move site1 changes to site2, merge site1 into
  site2 (using /tags/1.0 as the base revision). This should preserve
  the changes you made to site2 originally, unless there are conflicts
  (in which case you need to manually fix it anyway)
- tag the current version of site1 as /tags/2.0
- continue making changes to site1
- at the next merge, merge from /tags/2.0 to HEAD instead, and tag
  that as /tags/3.0
- and so on.

I hope this makes sense.

T

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