Re: [boost] Development and Release Practices

From: Rene Rivera (grafikrobot_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-08-07 15:28:57

Daniel Wallin wrote:
> 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?

I figured out why the switch wasn't working for me... I was confusing 
the trunk vs. tags URIs and svn would delete the file on switch and not 
work afterwards since there was no file to reference. So I got bit by 
exactly the question you are asking. The long path makes for occasional 
mistakes. So I think I'll stick to using tsvn as much as possible.

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