On Wednesday, October 25, 2006 5:08 PM Waldek Hebisch wrote: Bill Page wrote: > > ... Is deleteing and re-creating /trunk a safe and sensible > > thing to do? > > I am not sure if it is safe, but I wonder if it has any > advantages (like preserving history) compared to other options. >
My plan was to delete the existing SVN /trunk and re-create it using the exact history of Tim's tla branch axiom--silver--1. > > AFAIUT if you throw out history that is easy (probably the > easiest way): run locally diff on two directory trees (use > '--exclude' option to exclude metadata) than apply resulting > patch and commit > Yes. > Slightly better way (but much more laboriuos) would be to split > Tim's changes into separate patches and apply and commit them > separately. That is exactly what the Tailor program does automatically - no extra labour involved. That is how Tailor manages to transfer the history from one kind of repository to another. > > Another thing are changes in current silver, but not in Tim's > version -- I guess we just need to redo them. > Well, the procedure that we agreed on (I think) was the Tim would be solely responsible for committing changes to Silver (axiom--silver-1 == SVN /trunk). Tim's preferred way to do this is entirely a manual process - send him patches and copy the axiom-developer list. Personally I think Tim's decision to do this a bit misguided in this day and age, but that is another topic that we discussed many months ago... "old dogs, new tricks", etc., no need to go into that again. :-) Regards, Bill Page. _______________________________________________ Axiom-developer mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/axiom-developer
