Re: Best practices rookie question.

It's actually clearer if you only tag/branch trunk and never delete anything.
Otherwise people used to Subversion will wonder where you tagged/branched from
and cause more confusion.

The tags/branches consume no additional server space, so there's no harm.

Blair

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claudia logan wrote:
> O.k but in creating the tag - I only want what is released.  If those 
> directories are not really part of my baseline, why "tag" it?... This 
> will create confusion in the future..
> 
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Paul Koning <pkoning_at_equallogic.com>
> To: marc gonzalez-carnicer <carnicer.lists_at_gmail.com>; claudia logan 
> <cvlogan1_at_yahoo.com>
> Cc: users_at_subversion.tigris.org
> Sent: Friday, January 25, 2008 9:31:50 PM
> Subject: RE: Re: Best practices rookie question.
> 
> Given that branches are "free", my practice is simply to branch right
> near the root of the repository.  Much of the branch isn't needed, but
> it doesn't cost anything.  The part that isn't needed won't change, so
> it takes no extra space to speak of.
> 
> Don't bother deleting what you don't need, you're (1) wasting time, and
> (2) wasting space -- because it takes more space to record the deletion
> than to leave things alone.
> 
> This is one place where you really need to unlearn your CVS lessons --
> CVS branching is very very bad while Subversion does this right and very
> efficiently.
> 
>     paul
> 
>  > -----Original Message-----
>  > From: marc gonzalez-carnicer [mailto:carnicer.lists_at_gmail.com 
> <mailto:carnicer.lists_at_gmail.com>]
>  > Sent: Friday, January 25, 2008 9:24 PM
>  > To: claudia logan
>  > Cc: users_at_subversion.tigris.org <mailto:users_at_subversion.tigris.org>
>  > Subject: Re: Best practices rookie question.
>  >
>  >
>  > hi,
>  >
>  > 2008/1/26, claudia logan <cvlogan1_at_yahoo.com 
> <mailto:cvlogan1_at_yahoo.com>>:
>  > > Question 1: Using TortoiseSVN, How do I create a branch
>  > where only 3 of the
>  > > 5 directories are branched. what are the best practices. 
>  > What I have done
>  > > is branched the complete trunk then remove what I dont
>  > need.  But that seems
>  > > counterproductive. I updated the repository twice when
>  > there was no need.
>  >
>  > i would not remove after branching. if you merge back to trunk, the
>  > removed items will be removed.
>  >
>  > >
>  > > Question 1b: related to above, but instead of folders,
>  > individual files.  I
>  > > may need 5 documents out of 10.  All located in the same
>  > area. How do I tag
>  > > only what I need, leaving the rest?
>  >
>  > it seems you haven't remarked yet that copying (branching) is
>  > 'cheap', i.e., it
>  > does not take up disk space. otherwise, i don't see why you
>  > would want to
>  > tag some subset of the files.
>  >
>  > if you really need to release a subset of documents, what i'd do is :
>  >
>  >  * create a release/export folder on the repo
>  >  * svn copy there the needed files
>  >
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