Re: Mark a file as locally ignored

On Friday 25 March 2005 19:55, Sean Laurent wrote:

> Yeah, I was a big fan of this when I used Perforce at a previous job.  
> Especially when I was asked to fix a bug while I was in the middle of
> making other changes.  A typical scenario for me went like this:
>
> 1) Checkout maintenence branch.
> 2) Start making changes for a nasty bugfix.
> 3) Someone asks me to fix some minor problem.
> 4) I don't want to branch and I don't want to checkout another copy because
> I know this fix is going to be only a couple of files.  However, I want to
> prevent myself from making a stupid mistake.  I create a task-specific
> changeset for the nasty bugfix.

Do you change the same files that you have already started fixing for Nasty
Bugfix?

If no, you can just fix several other files, and commit just those files:

svn ci first_from_only_a_couple_of_files.c second.c

If yes, I do not see a viable altervnative to a genuine branch (which would
make things more clear).

Doesn't this mean that 'changesets' would just duplicate functionality of sbn
branches and checkins?

> 5) I make the small fix and commit.
> 6) I continue working on the nasty bugfix.
> 7) Goto #3.

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