Re: [boost] [release] How do you make a library update official?

Subject: Re: [boost] [release] How do you make a library update official?
From: Jeremiah Willcock (jewillco_at_[hidden])
Date: 2013-08-23 11:26:56

On Fri, 23 Aug 2013, Daniel James wrote:

> On Fri, 23 Aug 2013, at 01:16 PM, Vicente J. Botet Escriba wrote:
>>>
>> Move to the release directory and do
>>
>> cd boost/your_lib
>> svn merge "^trunk/boost/your_lib"
>
> That should be:
>
>     svn merge "^/trunk/boost/your_lib"
>
> But it probably won't work in this case, as earlier changes won't be
> marked as merged, so it will try to merge them as well.
>
> The easiest thing to do is probably to specify the revisions to merge.
> At the root of a release checkout:
>
>    svn merge -c85417 -c85418 "^/trunk/"

A more selective way is to merge single changes at a time.  I have 
attached the file I'm using for that for BGL (for Linux); it has 
directions for use, but you will need to customize it for your library. 
You will need to filter out old updates manually, but you get more control 
over what to merge and get a file of detailed changes (log messages from 
changes in the trunk) to help in writing the change log.

-- Jeremiah Willcock