> -----Original Message-----
> From: Chris.Fouts@qimonda.com [mailto:Chris.Fouts@qimonda.com]
> To answer your last question, in Subversion, yes a "tag" is
> essentially a copy of what you are tagging. So tagging the
> trunk "copies" the trunk. What this enables you to do is
> merge trunk deltas to a branch
> > cd to /branch_workspace
> > svn merge //repos/project/tags/trunk-branchname
> //repos/project/trunk
Yes, I can see this now. We do a diff between the snapshot of the
trunk, the development branch, and apply the results in the working copy
of the trunk.
> To answer your questions merging onto trunk, yes you would
> have to check out the "whole" trunk, since in Subversion, you just can
NOT check out
> a file (one of its weaknesses IMHO). The good thing is you only have
to
> do this once (per user).
Bother!
That's a real pain. So, in practice, developers will be changing no
more than half a dozen files per ticket, but need to have a local copy
of the whole trunk (several thousand files) just to merge their changes?
I can *really* see the benefit of the trunk being divided up.
I wonder if they could use a central location where a copy of the trunk
is held, just for commits? That is beginning to sound non-trivial, and
developers won't want to use the system if it isn't simple to use.
S.
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Received on Wed Dec 20 15:52:45 2006