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RE: out of date branches

From: Bob Archer <Bob.Archer_at_amsi.com>
Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2010 11:55:54 -0400

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jan Lund [mailto:janne_lund_at_yahoo.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, June 30, 2010 11:28 AM
> To: users_at_subversion.apache.org
> Subject: out of date branches
>
> Hi all,
>
> I would like to know if there are any recommendations as to enforce
> a team to always branch from the latest revision of a branch.
> There's a big risk that a developer might have forgotten to update
> a branch, then does a replace (in TortoiseSVN) which overwrites a
> more recent version of a file.
>
> How can this be prevented? Via hook-scripts, settings in
> TortoiseSVN. I prefer doing SVN copy via right-click drag-n-drop in
> TortoiseSVN than doing a cryptic Merge. I want to set a good
> process to ensure that a team never overwrites new stuff....
>

you could probably write a hook script for. But, if you instruct your devs to only do branching from the repository browser it will be done from head... unless they change repo browser to show an earlier revision... but that has to be done on purpose.

Bob

Received on 2010-06-30 17:57:34 CEST

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