Re: [Python-Dev] Procedure for sandbox branches in SVN?

2006-04-14 Thread Martin v. Löwis
Tim Peters wrote: Just do it. Branches under SVN are cheap, go fast, and are pretty easy to work with. Even better, because a branch is just another named directory in SVN's virtual file system, you can svn remove it when you're done with it (just like any other directory). That's all true.

Re: [Python-Dev] Procedure for sandbox branches in SVN?

2006-04-14 Thread Fredrik Lundh
Tim Peters wrote: Just do it. Branches under SVN are cheap, go fast, and are pretty easy to work with. Even better, because a branch is just another named directory in SVN's virtual file system, you can svn remove it when you're done with it (just like any other directory). footnote: if

Re: [Python-Dev] Procedure for sandbox branches in SVN?

2006-04-14 Thread Tim Peters
[Martin v. Löwis] That's all true. Of course, removing the branch won't free up any disk space - it will just remove the branch from the view (IOW, it is also easy to bring it back if it was removed mistakenly). Right! I'm implicitly addressing a different issue, namely that two reasons for

[Python-Dev] Procedure for sandbox branches in SVN?

2006-04-13 Thread Phillip J. Eby
I'd like to create a branch for maintaining the setuptools 0.6 line through its beta and final release, while new work proceeds on the trunk for integration with Python 2.5 and beginning the 0.7 line. Is there any special procedure I should follow, or can I just make a 'setuptools-0.6' branch

Re: [Python-Dev] Procedure for sandbox branches in SVN?

2006-04-13 Thread Tim Peters
[Phillip J. Eby] I'd like to create a branch for maintaining the setuptools 0.6 line through its beta and final release, while new work proceeds on the trunk for integration with Python 2.5 and beginning the 0.7 line. Is there any special procedure I should follow, or can I just make a