Re: [boost] Development and Release Practices

From: Daniel Wallin (daniel_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-08-07 12:24:56

Rene Rivera wrote:
> Beman Dawes wrote:
>> A draft "Development and Release Practices" document is up on the Wiki: 
>> http://www.crystalclearsoftware.com/cgi-bin/boost_wiki/wiki.pl?Development_And_Release_Practices
>>
>> Comments welcomed!
> 
> Simple question, regarding this:
> 
> Developers can ensure a stable development environment by checking out 
> //svn.boost.org/svn/boost/release as their working copy, and then 
> switching only the library they are working with to 
> //svn.boost.org/svn/boost/trunk or a library specific development branch.
> 
> AFAIK subversion doesn't allow switching individual files, only 
> directories. How would one switch for example "boost/regex.hpp"?

IIRC you can switch individual files:

  svn switch \
    https://svn.boost.org/svn/boost/branches/whatever/boost/regex.hpp \
    boost/regex.hpp

Unrelated side note; what's up with the complicated path? Why don't we
simply have https://svn.boost.org/trunk?

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Daniel Wallin
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