Re: Shared working copy

Johan Corveleyn wrote:
>> Perhaps you could give each developer his own working copy for source
>> edits but update a separate common wc where builds are performed. That
>> way subversion works the way you expect and you only have to coordinate
>> the timing of the builds.
>
> We do it like that. Each dev has his own working copy (on his own pc) to develop in, and we have a single working copy on our release buildmachine. Devs take rotations to make those release builds (basically running ant, and notifying testers that a new build is ready). We each make the build with our own user account, so the working copy is effectively "shared" (though not used concurrently).
>
> Using a single WC concurrently with different users like a very bad idea, as others already commented.

It's probably not that unusual to have a specialized build setup and a
separate working copy for it. The only issues you should have with this
should involve the local file permissions as you switch users and
perhaps the cached subversion credentials.

-- 
   Les Mikesell
    lesmikesell_at_gmail.com
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