On Sat, May 24, 2008 at 01:41:01PM +0100, James Sharpe wrote:
2008/5/24 Jens Seidel <jensseidel@users.sf.net>:
How about the usual name: branches/stable?
Again let me reiterate, I'd advise against trying to keep a constant
Sorry for not carefully reading previous mails.
branch name such as branches/release or branches/stable just because moving branches in the repository is a bad idea, just include the version number in the branch name! This kind of system works if you have a good merge tool, but quite frankly subversion is a rubbish tool for doing merges; distributed version control systems provide far
Is this true for Subversion 1.5 as well? This weekend will a release candidate be published, the release is planned one week later. This new merge command is interactive and seems to work well. I don't know git (but try to use it) and merging in other distributed version control systems (such as darcs, mercurial).
better merge tools that enable this kind of integration to be done easily; again I refer people to the example of the linux kernel or git for how this kind of thing is done.
Maybe this could be renamed into branches/next_release.
Try to avoid moving branches as I suggested earlier it makes it harder to migrate to other version control systems in the future and also
I can verify this for git-svn or however it is called (git functionaliy over svn). I just assumed the migration tool is buggy and that one just has to file a bug report (not yet done) ...
plays havoc with working copies if a new branch with the previous name is then created again as subversion doesn't detect the move. This is
I think this has changed recently (ehm, I mean in 1.5): * 'svn update' now sometimes copies or moves local files, for efficiency
part of the reason I consider subversion's branching model of using paths for branches to be broken.
James, you should not consider software such as Subversion as static. If you don't like a aspect and others agree with you just report it and wait for the fix (or even better provide a patch). Jens