Re: Managing a small number of changes for foreign code?

Aaron Zeckoski <azeckoski_at_vt.edu> writes:

> I want to manage a small number of changes to a large chunk of code
> (PHP) from an external project such that when I commit I am only
> committing the stuff I added or changed and not the rest of the
> code. The original code is not located in an SVN repository and
> license stuff means I cannot really put it in into my repository
> either. Is there any way to manage this? (if this is documented
> somewhere then please just send along the link)

I managed this for awhile by keeping a "patches" directory in SVN.
Whenever I changed something in the original, I would generate a patch
with diff, then update that diff in SVN.

That worked OK, but quickly got very tedious and error-prone. I
switched to the vendor branch approach, and it worked much better.
You might want to look closely at your license agreement and see if
this is truly prohibited; it seems strange that a license that allows
you to use and modify the code would prevent you from managing it in a
version control system. Even if it does, the licensing problem may
prove easier to solve than the technical one.

Good luck!

-----Scott.

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Received on 2009-05-25 20:07:58 CEST