Re: svn move, was: Databinding itest reorg proposal

2007-03-19 Thread Simon Laws

On 3/16/07, Jeremy Boynes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:


> Ah, apollogies for that. I have to admit that I'm a cvs person at
> heart so
> just getting to grips with svn. I ljust ooked up svn move and got
> that "why
> didn't I look there first" feeling, so I'll remember that for next
> time.
> Thanks for taking the time to explain.

If you're new to Subversion I highly recommend reading this:
   http://svnbook.red-bean.com/

There's an Appendix on "Subversion for CVS Users" :-)
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Cool. Thanks Jeremy


Re: svn move, was: Databinding itest reorg proposal

2007-03-16 Thread Jeremy Boynes
Ah, apollogies for that. I have to admit that I'm a cvs person at  
heart so
just getting to grips with svn. I ljust ooked up svn move and got  
that "why
didn't I look there first" feeling, so I'll remember that for next  
time.

Thanks for taking the time to explain.


If you're new to Subversion I highly recommend reading this:
  http://svnbook.red-bean.com/

There's an Appendix on "Subversion for CVS Users" :-)
--
Jeremy


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Re: svn move, was: Databinding itest reorg proposal

2007-03-16 Thread Simon Laws

On 3/15/07, Jeremy Boynes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:


On Mar 15, 2007, at 3:34 PM, Simon Laws wrote:
> I forgot to mention that the reason that so many XML files have
> suddenly
> appeared is that I've take the files that currently live in /
> interop and
> renamed and refactored them.

Thanks for explaining as this did look a bit odd.

One way to avoid that is to use "svn move" to move the files rather
than adding them again. When you do that, SVN shows that the file was
copied from somewhere else in the repo and so it is fairly clear that
it isn't a new work but just a derivative. This also has the
advantage that the history of the file is maintained so users can
track changes even across the move. It has an even bigger benefit in
that it makes life easier for the lawyers, and a happy lawyer is much
nicer to have than a grumpy one :-)

Some IDEs which grew up with CVS don't seem to realize that SVN
allows them to just move things rather than delete old and add new
(losing history in the process). If that's the case, then you can
still get the benefits of moving through the svn command.

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Ah, apollogies for that. I have to admit that I'm a cvs person at heart so

just getting to grips with svn. I ljust ooked up svn move and got that "why
didn't I look there first" feeling, so I'll remember that for next time.
Thanks for taking the time to explain.

Regards

Simon


svn move, was: Databinding itest reorg proposal

2007-03-15 Thread Jeremy Boynes

On Mar 15, 2007, at 3:34 PM, Simon Laws wrote:
I forgot to mention that the reason that so many XML files have  
suddenly
appeared is that I've take the files that currently live in / 
interop and

renamed and refactored them.


Thanks for explaining as this did look a bit odd.

One way to avoid that is to use "svn move" to move the files rather  
than adding them again. When you do that, SVN shows that the file was  
copied from somewhere else in the repo and so it is fairly clear that  
it isn't a new work but just a derivative. This also has the  
advantage that the history of the file is maintained so users can  
track changes even across the move. It has an even bigger benefit in  
that it makes life easier for the lawyers, and a happy lawyer is much  
nicer to have than a grumpy one :-)


Some IDEs which grew up with CVS don't seem to realize that SVN  
allows them to just move things rather than delete old and add new  
(losing history in the process). If that's the case, then you can  
still get the benefits of moving through the svn command.


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Jeremy
 


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