Saulius Grazulis wrote:
>On Friday 24 February 2006 08:10, Mark wrote:
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>>But you're not actually required to follow that human convention of
>>creating /tags /branches and /trunk.
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>>svn copy [SRC] [DST]
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>If I do it in a "normal" source directory, I will have to check out all "tags"
>whenever I check out sources -- may be long, disk consuming and unnecessary.
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>Unfortunately, to use Subversions "cheap cp tag" method, I am *forced* to move
>my sources one level deeper, be it called "trunk", "main" or whatever. Which
>I do not want.
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>>Whether people will commit to that tag or not is another matter
>>altogether but pre-commit hooks can easily solve that.
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>Hooks get lost in dumps. Hooks stop working when moved to different
>architectures. Hooks need to be set up -- I am lazy to do this ;). Hooks may
>contain bugs that bring weird behavior. Hooks need to be set up for *every*
>new repository -- isn't it wiser to solve a standard problem once and for
>ever, and forget it?
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>In my view, "cheap copies" mechanism rules for branches, but s....ks for
>tagging....
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First off, you can do this:
svn cp svn://repos/foo/trunk svn://repos/foo/tags/1.9.0
Cheap, no local copy.
however, it's understandable that you wouldnt want to type in long paths
anyway.
So.. I dont know if this is a good idea or not, but if we had some way
of specifying paths as "through the repos" instead of "through the
filesystem", we could do something similar to: [example of merging some
"foo" changes back into trunk]
svn merge --hypothetical-through-the-repos-switch ../tags/foo-sync
../branches/foo .
Note the common (as far as I hear) method for doing this is setting up
shell variables in your .profile:
svn merge $FOO_TAGS/foo-sync $BRANCHES/foo .
I think that's ugly and don't use that :)
Meanwhile, it's considered "good practice" to review the log before a
merge anyway.
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Received on Fri Feb 24 14:32:11 2006