> Any suggestions as to how to improve this? The CM process is
> unfortunately unlikely to change---they still want us to submit diffs
> rather than have direct commit access. But it would greatly help things
> if there is a way of encapsulating a diff that effectively tells SVN,
> "file X is actually derived from internal_url#1, so when adding please
> reuse the history from that URL". Ideas?
When we switched from VSS to SVN, we also implemented a single-committer
patch submission and review process. When there are directory-level
operations, they have to be documented in the change log that is submitted
with the patch. We use a "File operations" section that describes what the
committer must do, usually before applying the patch or even in the middle
of doing so. (and there is usually a small enough number of operations that
the committer can apply them by hand) It looks something like this:
"""
File operations:
RENAME Project/Class.cs to Project/AbstractClass.cs
Apply attached patch
DELETE Project/DuplicateClass.cs
"""
etc.
In other words, your current tools and process are almost there. We
recently started also using feature/task branches when there are several
file operations as part of a commit (which was also mentioned by Giovanni).
This approach also makes the reviews easier because the developer can commit
as often as they want to their branch (sometimes within 10 minutes of a
previous commit) and then the committer can inspect these changes
individually or as batches. We also considered making the file operations a
batch file that executes the command-line SVN program that performs said
operations (because there really isn't that much more work involved than
writing it by hand) but branches are good enough.
If you go with the branches approach, take a look at "authz" (which appeared
in version 1.4, I think) if you don't trust your non-committers not to
commit to the trunk.
HTH,
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