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Re: Best way to maintain patches to a 3rd party library?

From: Ryan Schmidt <subversion-2011a_at_ryandesign.com>
Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2011 01:21:03 -0600

On Jan 10, 2011, at 15:51, NN Ott wrote:

>> To recap, as Les put it:
>>
>> I think the idea is that he'd like to see the development history of both the vendor and local changes as a continuous set of changes as you would if they were in the same repository with log and diff working across any points in time or branch versions. It seems like a reasonable thing to want, but I don't think it is possible with subversion.
>
> What would be the correct forum for such a request?

I don't think the request can be met by Subversion. Subversion is a centralized version control system; the request is met by not using a centralized version control system, but instead using a distributed version control system.
Received on 2011-01-11 08:21:45 CET

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