Re: [Jsynthlib-devel] fixed build error in trunk

[Joe E. <jo...@em...>]

On 9/1/2011 7:49 AM, Vladimir Avdonin wrote:
> Regarding you experimental work:
>
> The mechanism for such activity provided by subversion is branch. Once you created you branch you can screw it around in any way you please, it would not affect main line of development and releases. Once your branch would arrive to some agreeable good state, it can be merged back into trunk for common use.

The only problem with that is that, back when I started it, Sourceforge 
wasn't using SVN, it was using CVS. SVN understands files getting 
*moved* to other folders, while CVS treats them as though you deleted 
the old file and created a new one in the new location. So, the revision 
history gets "broken", in a way.

I'm now worried that, if I try to make a branch, SVN won't understand 
any continuity from the existing source tree, and it will consider the 
entire source code to be new.... which would make for an interesting 
merge into the trunk, later.

But I know almost nothing about how SVN does it's thing...

- Joe