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Re: Need to create branches

From: Ryan Schmidt <subversion-2005_at_ryandesign.com>
Date: 2005-11-03 16:53:09 CET

On Nov 3, 2005, at 16:22, Greg Thomas wrote:

> On Thu, 3 Nov 2005 23:13:18 +0800, Adrian Hoe <mailbox@adrianhoe.com>
> wrote:
>
>> As Duncan mention that "trunk" and "branch" are just only
>> conventions. I think I would like to keep it that way:
>>
>> /svn/Sumo/BRANCHES/----+Branch1
>> |
>> +Branch2
>>
>> The reason I need to create branches is to test out several different
>> implementation of codes and OS platforms (like qt, Gtk, etc).
>>
>> The mainstream development will still reside in /svn/Sumo.
>
> The trouble with that is that each new branch you create will include
> all the previous branches prior to that date.
>
> For example, if you have
> /svn/Sumo/ - main code
> /svn/Sumo/BRANCHES - directory for branches
> /svn/Sumo/BRANCHES/branch1 - first branch
> /svn/Sumo/BRANCHES/branch2 - second branch
>
> when you create your third branch,
>
> svn cp /svn/Sumo/ /svn/Sumo/BRANCHES/branch3
>
> branch3 will now also contain branch1 and branch2 -
> /svn/Sumo/BRANCHES/branch3
> /svn/Sumo/BRANCHES/branch3/BRANCHES/branch1
> /svn/Sumo/BRANCHES/branch3/BRANCHES/branch2

So the conclusion is that you really should create a directory trunk,
move everything into trunk, and create a branches directory at the
same level as trunk, so that you avoid the problem Greg described above.

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