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

[Graham W. <gr...@mk...>]

On Fri, Nov 12, 2004 at 09:44:59PM +0100, Matthias Andree wrote:
> Graham Wilson <gr...@mk...> writes:
> >   $ cd /path/to/my/wc
> >   $ svn switch https://decoy.wox.org/svn/fetchmail/branches/debian
> 
> I presume that is ...fetchmail/trunk

Yes.

> > 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.

No, it is only by convention.

> > 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 :)

Since I access all of my projects on my server, I set the SVN
environment variable and do the following:

  $ echo $SVN
  https://decoy.wox.org/svn
  $ svn diff $SVN/fetchmail/trunk $SVN/fetchmail/branches/debian

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