I have a quick, probably philosophical, question here.
I'm a hardware guy doing mostly FPGAs in VHDL. For development, I just keep
the sources and scripts in svn on the trunk (unless branched for an
experiment or whatever). Because FPGA place-and-route isn't guaranteed to
be the same every time, we like to include the resulting PROM load files
with the sources that we hand over to production. It would be convenient to
check these results files into the repository. It seems to me the right way
to do this would be to use a tag.
Here's how I do this. I copy the build results (a .mcs or .jed or .bit
file) to a temporary directory. I make sure the WC is updated, then I tag
it. I then switch the WC to the tag, copy the results back to where they
were, add them, then commit them. TortoiseSVN then displays a helpful
warning, "It seems like you're committing to a tag...shouldn't you be doing
this to a branch or the trunk?" but it allows the commit.
Now that the tag has been created, I delete the WC and check out the trunk
if I want to continue working on the design.
Would it be better to simply add the build results to the WC, commit the
change, tag it (leaving the WC still referring to the trunk), then svn
delete the build results?
All thoughts appreciated.
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Received on Wed Jun 29 03:20:04 2005