RE: Re: What is the Best Practice for "branching branches"?

> -----Original Message-----
> From: fj [mailto:fj@effjay.com]
> Sent: Thursday, September 13, 2007 11:41 AM
> To: users@subversion.tigris.org
> Subject: Re: What is the Best Practice for "branching branches"?
>
> Bicking, David (HHoldings, IT) wrote:
> > Given a starting structure of:
> >
> > /FOO/Trunk
> > /FOO/Branches/MyKungFOO
> >
> > Where MyKungFOO is now at a point where I want to branch
> it, what is
> > the proper way to do that?
> >
> > I am speculating that it involves restructuring the
> repository so that
> > I would have:
> >
> > /FOO/Branches/MyKungFOO/Trunk
> > /FOO/Branches/MyKungFOO/Branches
> >
> > Then move the branch into the new trunk and branch it normally.
> >
> > --
> > David Bicking
> just curious, david -
> what's going on that would make you want to branch MyKungFOO
> yet again before merging it back into trunk?
>
> cheers,
> -FJ

Well, in this particular case, I am in svn evaluation stages, and I have
a project I loaded to trunk. Then I got a new computer, and a newer
version of a .NET library was installed on it, so the project references
were broken. I decided to branch the project and use the newer
libraries in the branch.

Now, I want to evaluate the svn:externals feature. This will require
significant changes in the structure of the project, so I want to do
this on a branch and simply close it when I'm done or if it falls apart.

For the moment, I went with the other suggestion, which was:

> From: Chris.Fouts@qimonda.com [mailto:Chris.Fouts@qimonda.com]
> Why not just have
> /FOO/Trunk
> /FOO/Branches/MyKungFOO
> /FOO/Branches/MyKungFOO_br
>
> where /FOO/Branches/MyKungFOO_br is a branch from
> /FOO/Branches/MyKungFOO

I am still looking for additional opinions with respect to "best
practices". I can see this kind of thing happening in the "real world"
for branches that themselves spawn subfeatures or where we might permit
developes to have "private branches", etc.

--
David
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