RE: RE: Re: Suspending commits

I have a couple of (more-or-less sensible) ways around on this one.

If you only ever submit a tagged build (we do about 2-3 a week), and set up your build environment to built from the tag (in reality just a branch), then there's nothing actually stopping you making a change under the tag that broke, then merging back into the trunk (as well as re-tagging the new (sub-)version of the tag.

Alternatively (and this is what we mostly do), is have a set of 'floating' branches, one of which is say called "Release Candidate", that you always build your release from. Each time to make a release, over-write the preivous branch with what you're releasing. This keeps the number of branches down to say 4 (trunk, in test, in UAT, in production). Essentially you're never in reality interested in what was in UAT 3 releases back.

Rgds

Staffan Tj.

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From: Michael Pickard [mailto:mpickard@visitlondon.com]
Sent: Monday, 24 July, 2006 01:26
To: users@subversion.tigris.org
Cc: Nico Kadel-Garcia; Mike Craig
Subject: RE: Re: Suspending commits

Because there may be a need to rebuild if something fails UAT, hence 'without my prior authorisation'.

If I needed to rebranch each time, I'd get at least one or two new branches a week *plus* any branches created by failed UAT - it would soon become unwieldy.

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From: Mike Craig [mailto:Mike.Craig@freeclear.com]
Sent: 21 July 2006 17:24
To: Nico Kadel-Garcia; Michael Pickard; users@subversion.tigris.org
Subject: RE: Re: Suspending commits

Why not branch, and build from the branch?

Michael Pickard
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