On Thursday 01 September 2005 23:56, Ian Eure wrote:
> On Sep 1, 2005, at 3:23 PM, Ben Collins-Sussman wrote:
> > Is all the fuss about trying to find the revision which is the
> > 'base' of the branch? The whole running 'svn log --stop-on-copy'
> > to figure out when the branch was created?
> >
> > Why not, when creating the branch, also make a tag of it:
> >
> > $ svn cp trunkURL branchURL
> > $ svn cp branchURL branch-beginning-tag-URL
> >
> > [...make changes on branch...]
> >
> > $ svn checkout trunkURL; cd trunk
> > $ svn merge branch-beginning-tag-URL branchURL
>
> Still too much work. And I believe you omitted the delete/recreate
> step for thee branch-beginning tag, which is still more work. And
> creating new tags/branches slooooooow.
>
Creating tags, and branches in SVN is super fast. Just make sure you use URLs
to create, don't do the copy locally.
eg.
svn copy -q -m "Branch for mad changes" svn://svn/repo/admin/main
svn://svn/repo/admin/tags/release-1.0.41.0
Happens more or less instantly. The switch your working copy to that tag with
svn switch
svn switch svn://svn/repo/admin/tags/release-1.0.41.0
> But this is my point - Subversion knows (or should know) the revision
> at which a branch was created, so why is all this screwing around
> with revision numbers and tags necessary in the first place?
>
You are suffering from 2 problems
1. SVN is just a better CVS. It is better but it is also different, you need
to learn how it works best, not make it work live CVS
2. You are suffering from branchitis. You are clearly creating branches willy
nilly, and this is a recipe for disaster.
I only create branches from release tags, that way I can always see the diffs
between the branch, and the release. Also when I release from a branch I just
increment the last number in the rev, so I can clearly see it is a branch
release.
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