I would suggest another solution:
create another directory on the same level as /trunk and /tags
called /artefacts or /archives and everytime you tag a build
(eg. /tags/myfancysoftware-1.2.3/ src....) you place the artefacts in the
artefacts directory /artefacts/myfancysoftware-1.2.3/*.zip or
even /artefacts/myfancysoftware-1.2.3.zip (if you can place all your
artefacts in one zip file)
The advantages of this approach are:
1) you get a directory with downloadable versions of your product
2) it's easily automateable (either your build scripts create the tag and
place the artefacts with in the correct name in the correct directory, or you
create the tag and a post commit hook starts the build and commits the
artefacts)
Apart from that i favor the solution not to put build artefacts in a
repository (because most often they are big binary files, sometimes even CD
images). I rather ensure that everything needed to rebuild from a tag is
included in that tag.
Reinhard
On Tuesday 31 October 2006 14:01, Cornwell, Ian H wrote:
> We are in the process of migrating to subversion.
> We are having a discussion on how we should tag our built artefacts /
> deployment bundles.
> We are sure we want to include our deployed artefacts in the repository.
>
> We see 2 viable options, but we have not yet agreed which is best.
>
> Let's assume that we already have a source tag, and that we have built
> that and produced a set of files for deployment.
>
> Option A) Commit the deployment files to trunk (or a branch), and make
> another release tag from trunk (or a branch).
>
> Option B) Commit the deployment files straight to a new tag in tags/
> without them ever having been in trunk.
>
> Different engineers here see different advantages and disadvantages in
> the two options. It could be an advantage not to have the deployment
> files in trunk, because we are only ever interested in tags of
> deployment files.
>
> What do you think is the best practice for tagging deployment files?
>
> Ian
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