On Fri, 2004-06-11 at 08:29, Henri Yandell wrote: > On Fri, 11 Jun 2004, Brian W. Fitzpatrick wrote: > > I know of no uses cases for what you're describing... do you have one? > > Two of them. > > 1) Common for a piece of taggable code to inherit something outside of its > directory, usually either a super-build.xml, or a super-project.xml. It's > hard to tag these when you tag the directory. This one is possible, but > quite a pain in SVN. I had to checkout just my releases/ directory, then > do manual copying. I suspect that it wasted diskspace on the server as it > wasn't url-url.
Nope. If there are no content differences, the Subversion repository will do the most efficient thing and just copy the node (not the contents). > 2) I suspect others do this differently, but I've often released things > from Jakarta Commons where we've not included a certain directory or bunch > of files in the release because they're not ready yet. In this case, they > shouldn't be tagged with that release either. Fair enough. Those two cases are a bit difficult to manage in Subversion. > One option here might be to branch the code, then delete from the branch > the things you don't want. As branching and tagging seem to be the same > thing in SVN, I suspect this would work. Process change. Yes it would. > Yep. I suspect the solution is to modify the development process when it > has problems, but I think I heard something about subversion supporting a > property-tagging system at some point in the future that would work much > like CVS? This was 3rd hand information, and you'd know better :) No clue what this is about. Subversion does have the concept of per-node (file or directory) metadata, and per-revision metadata--they're called 'properties' and 'revision properties' respectively. See the section on Properties in the Subversion book: http://svnbook.red-bean.com/svnbook/ch07s02.html -Fitz --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
