Repository change to SVN, Jan 28th

2006-01-20 Thread Adam Fedor
I've scheduled the change of repositories from CVS to SVN for next Saturday, Jan 28. If you have any reasonably complete changes to GNUstep, you should try to commit them to the CVS repository by Friday, Jan 27. After that, the CVS repository at gnu.org will no longer be the official source cod

Re: Repository change to SVN, Jan 28th

2006-01-22 Thread Riccardo
Hello, On Saturday, January 21, 2006, at 03:47 PM, Fred Kiefer wrote: I am a bit puzzled by this fast transission over to SVN. Looks like everybody wants to take place, or at least does not oppose it. Still we should make sure that now that we doing it, it does not interrupt the GNUstep develop

Re: Repository change to SVN, Jan 28th

2006-01-22 Thread Sheldon Gill
Fred Kiefer wrote: I also think that with the new possibilities of SVN there come a few more rules that we need to set up and follow. We expect that SVN will make it easier to have multiple branches with actual development going on. Now what will be the rules for merging this branches back into t

Re: Repository change to SVN, Jan 28th

2006-01-22 Thread Fred Kiefer
Dear Riccardo, Riccardo wrote: > On Saturday, January 21, 2006, at 03:47 PM, Fred Kiefer wrote: > >> I am a bit puzzled by this fast transission over to SVN. Looks like >> everybody wants to take place, or at least does not oppose it. Still we >> should make sure that now that we doing it, it do

Re: Repository change to SVN, Jan 28th

2006-01-22 Thread David Ayers
Sheldon Gill schrieb: > Fred Kiefer wrote: > >> I also think that with the new possibilities of SVN there come a few >> more rules that we need to set up and follow. We expect that SVN will >> make it easier to have multiple branches with actual development going >> on. Now what will be the rules

Re: Repository change to SVN, Jan 28th

2006-01-22 Thread Helge Hess
On Jan 22, 2006, at 16:42, Sheldon Gill wrote: Actually, I think Fred has raised a good point here. We do, I think, need some clarification about branches and merging back to trunk. While I agree that the point is good in general and some rules need to be set up, its not the most important poi

Re: Repository change to SVN, Jan 28th

2006-01-22 Thread Adam Fedor
On 2006-01-22 04:42:31 -0700 Riccardo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: "instantaneous" switch is the best thing imho. A CVS mirror out of the SVN should be created at the same time so anonymous check-out can continue "as usual". Anyone who knows how to do this or if it is possible, let me know.

Re: Repository change to SVN, Jan 28th

2006-01-22 Thread Sheldon Gill
David Ayers wrote: Sheldon Gill schrieb: Fred Kiefer wrote: [snip] - are we going to stick with the SVN recommended 'trunk', 'branch' and 'tag' I would like to see this. So would I. The thing I was thinking about is experimental or proof-of-concept type work. At the moment it seems th

Re: Repository change to SVN, Jan 28th

2006-01-23 Thread David Ayers
Sheldon Gill schrieb: > David Ayers wrote: > >> You mean other than releases? Well since we have defined repository >> states through revision numbers, I can't think of any necessity for more >> tags. It's not like gnustep is seeing the kind of development activity >> like, say, GCC. But maybe

Re: Repository change to SVN, Jan 28th

2006-01-23 Thread Sheldon Gill
David Ayers wrote: Sheldon Gill schrieb: David Ayers wrote: You mean other than releases? Well since we have defined repository states through revision numbers, I can't think of any necessity for more tags. It's not like gnustep is seeing the kind of development activity like, say, GCC. But

Re: Repository change to SVN, Jan 28th

2006-01-23 Thread Markus Hitter
Am 22.01.2006 um 19:04 schrieb David Ayers: - what goes into tag? When? You mean other than releases? Well since we have defined repository states through revision numbers, I can't think of any necessity for more tags. Is there actually reason for tagging? As tags and branches are te