Re: [boost] SVN repo structure... [was: Subversion structure in KDE]

From: Marcus Lindblom (macke_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-05-31 08:19:00

Douglas Gregor wrote:
> On May 31, 2007, at 4:32 AM, Marcus Lindblom wrote:
>   
>> Additionally, one could also set up a completely different repository
>> for the sandbox, to make logs/history less cluttered. Has that been
>> considered?
>>     
>
> It was. We (I?) decided to put it into the same Subversion  
> repository, so that it would be easy to keep all of the sandbox  
> history for a library when it is accepted into Boost. With  
> SourceForge, this was a real pain: we had to either beg SF staff to  
> move over the CVS history, or we had to just re-import and lose easy  
> access to that history. Subversion dumpfiles can make this a little  
> easier, and the Subversion server is under our control now, but it  
> still requires user intervention.
>   
Ok. That makes sense. I didn't think about the sandbox as a 
"soon-to-be-boostified" storage, but rather as a wild playground. :)

Cheers,
/Marcus