On Thu, 14 Oct 2010 15:38:41 -0400, Bob Archer wrote:
>> I develop for a site that uses Mediawiki (MW). We make some
>> modifications to it before deployment. Generally, (using subversion) we
>> check out a tagged version into a workspace, recursively delete the
>> .svn directories, modify a small number of files, add some of our own
>> extensions, and then commit the result into our own repository. We then
>> work with the source from there.
>>
>> This approach means we have to track MW bug-fixes and add them to our
>> modified version. I was wondering if there is a better way to
>> accomplish the same objective. For example, we can use the
>> svn:externals property to point to the MW repository version of the
>> extensions we use, so each time they are updated, all we need to do is
>> svn up on the externals directory.
>>
>> The main source is a different story. Since we modify some of the files
>> (and have no commit privileges to the MW repository), the files we
>> modify are not within our purview to change (and understandably the MW
>> people wouldn't allow it even if we had commit privileges).
>>
>> Is there any way to use the svn:externals property to solve the main
>> source issue? For example, could we point the revision we keep in our
>> main repository to the correct revision in the MW repository and then
>> tag the appropriate directories that contain the files we modify with
>> svn:external. These latter svn:external properties would name the
>> individual files we modify and point to the modified version that we
>> could keep in our repository. My concern is we are "overloading" the
>> files in the MW repository with files in our repository and I am not
>> sure subversion allows that.
>>
>>
> There is a whole section in the svn book about this...
>
> http://svnbook.red-bean.com/nightly/en/svn-
book.html#svn.advanced.vendorbr
>
> BOb
I have read this section. It is about vendor drops, but it doesn't answer
the question I asked. Basically, we are doing a vendor drop now.
Dan
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-- Dan Nessett
Received on 2010-10-14 21:50:48 CEST