Re: Is label support in future release?

Dmitri Colebatch wrote:
> We've recently migrated from cvs to svn and the single biggest thing
> I'm struggling with is the
> following scenario:
>
> I get a bug report from the field, or I want to pre-emptively check
> to see if a particular fix made it into a release (releases might be
> in QA for weeks before going out to production). In cvs, I would
> know that the tag in QA/production is "tag_20061115a". Using IntelliJ I
> would then view history of that file and I can scan down the history
> to see which version has that tag.
>
> I'm yet to figure out a nice way
> to do the same thing using svn. I've had a couple of pointers in
>
> response to an earlier enquiry but haven't really found anything that is
> as simple as the above.

Wouldn't the release be tagged in SVN (perhaps as
/tags/production/20061115a)?

Then you scan the history of that file in /tags/production/20061115a, and
see if the fix is in there [DON'T set the "stop on copy" flag].

What's the difference?

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Nikki Locke, Trumphurst Ltd.      PC & Unix consultancy & programming
http://www.trumphurst.com/
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