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RE: automatically updating a branch

From: Dale Worley <dworley_at_pingtel.com>
Date: 2005-03-25 00:09:56 CET

> From: allan juul [mailto:allan@muly.dk]
>
> everytime we built and deploy our Mainline branch to our production
> machines we will automatically need to update the Maintain branch to
> consist of an exact snapshot of that Mainline branch just deployed.

If you *never* make any changes to the Maintain branch other than to update
it to match the Mainline at a particular moment, then the easiest method is
to consider Maintain to be a resetable tag -- svn delete
http://.../Maintain; svn copy http://.../Mainline http://.../Maintain. That
actually does maintain the log history because Subversion records that rev
40 of Maintain is a copy of rev 38 of Mainline, which is a changed version
of rev 36 of Mainline, etc.

But if you expect to make minor changes to the Maintain branch, then you
really should set up a "vendor branch" structure as described in the
Subversion book. It looks like a lot of work, but anything simpler gets
confused by one or another normal maintenance activity.

Dale

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