Re: [boost] [SVN] Repository branches/libs experiments

From: David Abrahams (dave_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-08-27 10:22:31

on Sun Aug 26 2007, "Peter Dimov" <pdimov-AT-pdimov.com> wrote:

> Sebastian Redl:
>
> ...
>
>> Maybe someone will find this little tutorial useful.
>
> I for one did, thanks for that. But... what a pain! How do people manage to 
> get work done at all? Isn't there a more streamlined way to do
>
> 1. Create branch
> 2. Work
> 3. Merge from trunk
> 4. Work
> 5. Merge from trunk
> 6. Test branch
> 7. Merge to trunk
>
> without remembering repository paths and revisions? 

Yes: http://www.orcaware.com/svn/wiki/Svnmerge.py

We just have to mandate that everyone use it.  The next version of
Subversion will make it unnecessary
(http://blogs.open.collab.net/svn/2007/05/the_subversion__1.html)

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