Since branching and tagging are cheap operations in SVN ( meaning, no
Files are duplicated in the repository ), a common use would be:
Develop on trunk.
When code is ready to be released, branch the trunk ( eg. to release 1.x
)
Checkout your branch ( or switch to your branch ), and add the build
results
When the branch is complete ( source + build results ), tag it (
FINAL_RELEASE 1.x )
If you don't need to make patches on a certain branch, you can disable
access to it
Or finally delete it again.
The only practical difference for you is using a branch instead of a
tag, you
avoid the error message and it gives you the warm feeling using SVN like
it
should be used :) But again, tagging and branching are cheap operations,
so there
Is no disadvantage using this approach.
Regards,
Lieven.
-----Original Message-----
From: Andy Peters [mailto:devel@latke.net]
Sent: woensdag 29 juni 2005 3:33
To: users@subversion.tigris.org
Subject: Tags w/build results
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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