-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Benji York wrote: > I'd like for us to disallow pre-1.5 Subversion clients from making > commits starting one year from now (or sooner if there is consensus). > > The recent hardware problems for svn.zope.org had the positive outcome > of precipitating an upgrade to Subversion 1.5 which has merge tracking. > One of the requirements to use merge tracking is that no pre-1.5 client > merge to the branch that you want to use with merge tracking. > > That means that as of now, anyone can use merge tracking on their > projects as long as all merges are done with a mergeinfo-capable (1.5+) > client. > > Until we ban commits from pre-1.5 clients (using a pre-commit hook), > anyone who wants to use merge tracking will have to be careful with the > clients they use (and watch out for rouge merges from other contributors > which can be fixed-up after the fact). > > The Subversion book includes information about merge tracking: > http://svnbook.red-bean.com/nightly/en/svn.branchmerge.basicmerging.html > http://svnbook.red-bean.com/nightly/en/svn.branchmerge.advanced.html > > A description of the pre-1.5 client problem is at > http://svnbook.red-bean.com/nightly/en/svn.branchmerge.advanced.html#svn.branchmerge.advanced.pre1.5clients
+0, I guess: I would be more comfortable if we could measure the incidence of pre-1.5 client usage over time, and maybe even identify the committers who are using them, so that we can sent out a targeted warning message before breaking their checkouts. Tres. - -- =================================================================== Tres Seaver +1 540-429-0999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Palladion Software "Excellence by Design" http://palladion.com -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFJHFWo+gerLs4ltQ4RAlDWAJ4mhFz6683K5eLs3T061ejSCaiIQACghWmn OQjtYqIrO3TXnn5SsrjhrL4= =Bncy -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Zope-Dev maillist - Zope-Dev@zope.org http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev ** No cross posts or HTML encoding! ** (Related lists - http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-announce http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope )
