It is indeed unfortunate, and I try my best to remember it when dealing with branches.
While the topic is raised though, is the 0.6 branch rooted at: https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/qpid/branches/0.6-release/qpid or https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/qpid/branches/0.6-release/trunk/qpid ? Robbie > -----Original Message----- > From: Andrew Stitcher [mailto:astitc...@redhat.com] > Sent: 06 January 2010 21:43 > To: Qpid Dev List > Subject: Subversion tags and branches (a little moan) > > I've just noticed (after several hours of puzzling about what was > screwing up my git branch history) that there are a number of branches > and tags that omit the top level, redundant "qpid" directory. > > Now I'm for getting rid of uselessness like this as much as the next > guy > (and I'm in fact responsible for at least one of these tags myself). > However it totally screws up git-svn's ability to figure out the > correct > branching structure of the project (and frankly git-svn is the best > tool > able to visualise this) so I'm a little unhappy it's broken into 2 > pieces. > > I don't think this can be fixed now in the existing tree, but can we > please, please, please remember when doing "svn cp" to do something > like: > > svn cp -r895736 https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/qpid/trunk > https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/qpid/branches/0.6-release > > > [The -r is useful to make sure you know exactly which revision you are > branching or tagging] > > Andrew > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > Apache Qpid - AMQP Messaging Implementation > Project: http://qpid.apache.org > Use/Interact: mailto:dev-subscr...@qpid.apache.org --------------------------------------------------------------------- Apache Qpid - AMQP Messaging Implementation Project: http://qpid.apache.org Use/Interact: mailto:dev-subscr...@qpid.apache.org
