Re: [fetchmail-devel] quick overview of branching and tagging in SVN

[Matthias A. <ma...@dt...>]

Graham Wilson <gr...@mk...> writes:

> You can then switch your working copy of fetchmail to the Debian branch
> by doing the following:
>
>   $ cd /path/to/my/wc
>   $ svn switch https://decoy.wox.org/svn/fetchmail/branches/debian
>
> Switching back to the trunk is just as easy:
>
>   $ cd /path/to/my/wc
>   $ svn switch https://decoy.wox.org/svn/fetchmail/branches/debian

I presume that is ...fetchmail/trunk

> Tagging is done the same way as branching, except you copy to the tags
> directory, not the branhes directory, and you never checkin anything on
> a tag.

Are these "check in only on branches" enforced or is that just a
convention? For this reminds me of what the svnbook recommended on the
handling of vendor branches - and I see nothing but different names.

> To see what would be merged before doing the merge operation:
>
>   $ svn diff https://decoy.wox.org/svn/fetchmail/trunk \
>              https://decoy.wox.org/svn/fetchmail/branches/debian

Helluvalottotype :)

> I'd be happy to answer any questions anyone has (assuming I can, of
> course :).

Thank you.

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Matthias Andree