Re: [NumExp] Question about the svn repository

[Gustavo J. A. M. C. <gj...@in...>]

On Thu, 2007-11-08 at 00:54 +0100, David Boucher wrote:
> Le Wed, 7 Nov 2007 22:01:20 +0100,
> David Boucher <bo...@wa...> a écrit :
> 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > After asking the question to Alberto, he proposed me to ask it to the
> > list, just because Gustavo surely knows the answer :-)
> > 
> > I would like to have branches on the svn repository. It's not because
> > I want a new gadget but because I made many changes to the
> > numexp-core. Those big changes need other big changes, that need
> > other big ones...
> > 
> > So, my last version is very unstable and I don't want to commit it
> > directly.
> > 
> > My method at the moment is to play with many directories of the
> > numexp-core, but it becomes difficult to work with them.
> > 
> > So, if I could have a development branch, it would be simpler for
> > me. :-)... I think.
> > 
> > So, Gustavo, please, could you point us to a solution ? :-)
> > 
> > Thanks.
> > David.
> 
> After googling a lot, I found people with the same difficulty on
> SVNForum.org, the answer was :
> * create trunks
> * create branches
> * create tags
> * move all the files and directories to trunk

Of course using a DVCS is even better than that ;-)  The problem with
subversion is that creating branches is easy, but merging them back to
trunk is not so easy...

-- 
Gustavo J. A. M. Carneiro
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"The universe is always one step beyond logic" -- Frank Herbert