Re: Tagging svn:externals

On Feb 21, 2013, at 11:18, Philip Martin wrote:

> Les Mikesell writes:
>
>> Neither choice 'feels' quite right to me unless you have an
>> intermediate branch to make the change. That is, if you make it on
>> the trunk before you copy to the tag you break the likely continuing
>> work on the trunk that expects the externals to also follow trunk
>> components. And if you change it in the tag you are breaking the
>> convention that you don't change tags. And if you copy the working
>> copy to a tag you might get other changes in the tag that weren't
>> committed anywhere else. Is there a 'best practice' consensus for
>> this step?
>
> You could write a script using svnmucc so that the copy and the property
> change happen in the same commit. We do something like that when
> tagging Subversion, we edit a header when we make a tag:

I thought that's what the svncopy.pl script is supposed to do.

http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/subversion/trunk/contrib/client-side/svncopy/svncopy.README
Received on 2013-02-21 23:39:17 CET