On Thursday 15 February 2007 14:46, James Oltmans wrote:
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> From: Dave Grundgeiger [mailto:dave.grundgeiger@codenouveau.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, February 14, 2007 3:42 PM
> To: users@subversion.tigris.org
> Subject: Re: rename and diff
>
> I haven't received any comments on this. *Is* there a standard
> practice? It
> seems fairly straightforward: I've issued a bunch of svn rename
> commands in
> my WC, but this can't be represented in a diff file. I want to hand
> over a
> convenient, atomic patch to a project's maintainers. What do others
> do? My
> solution was to supply a batch file with the svn commands, plus a
> diff file
> with the actual file changes. Is this reasonable?
>
> Dave
>
> Dave Grundgeiger
> CodeNouveau, LLC
> Develop .NET Software with Open-Source Tools
> http://www.codenouveau.com
>
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> I'd like to know as well. We currently deliver patches by hand and
> our customers are used to it. People don't seem very comfortable
> with just replacing the system whole. We also have customers who
> modify the code we distribute (I know a nightmare, we shouldn't be
> distributing code but that's what we've always done). We're also
> concerned about SOX, though I really think that as far as SOX
> compliance is concerned that's just a red herring.
>
> But, I digress, what is the best way to distribute patches to code
> where the names can change?
I'm not qualified to answer, but I'll give it a guess. It seems this
responsibility has been falling on the specific "package manager"
utility. For example, if YOU (managing packages installed on SUSE
Linux) wants to update my "firefox" package using only a differential
patch, I think it would have to decide what to send to complete the
differential update.
Anybody know how tools that use svn libs to implement this sort of
specific application automatically?
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Received on Thu Feb 15 23:21:31 2007