On Sep 19, 2005, at 11:17 AM, Dain Sundstrom wrote:
Geir, if your statement were factually correct I would agree with
you, but we have not lost or hid any history. Go see for yourself.
I never said we lost anything. We are hiding it because you can't go
look at our structure of branches and tags and get a clear picture.
$ cd tags/v1_0_M4
$ svn log project.properties
or
http://svn.apache.org/viewcvs.cgi/geronimo/tags/v1_0_M4/
project.properties?rev=227113&view=log
You will find the entire history fir that file including all move
and copy commands.
Regardless, if you think it is so important to have two copies of
the same code in our active tree, then you resurrect the code.
We could save even more space by deleting the tag as well :)
I do think it's important that we have a clear and straightforward
process for this. Again, putting aside the aversion to doing updates
to milestones, I think that we will be keeping branches around in
general, and doing one or more tags from them.
Right now, if we did an update to M4, we'd have to bring the branch
back, work on it, and then tag again. Then what do we do? Delete
the branch again? I think we'd leave it.
if diskspace or confusion is a real problem, one solution is to keep
a tag log of just revision numbers, since that is what we want to
record as our tags.
Suppose
/tags/
tag_M4.txt
tag_M4.1.txt
tag_M5.txt
which contains something like
svn co -r WHATEVER https://......./branchs/M4/ M4_release
or ish, which captures the code that was released in a repeatable way?
So if someone wanted to get exactly what was in a release, they would
just execute what was in the file for that tag....
geir
-dain
On Sep 19, 2005, at 6:30 AM, Geir Magnusson Jr. wrote:
Right, so deleting doesn't remove anything.
I think that hiding our history like this is a bad idea, and will
lead to even more confusion - if you don't want to make a mistake
and work on a branch accidentally, don't check it out.
Anyway, I can't see how removing the branch will prevent mistakes
while leaving the tag entry there. It looks the same.
geir
On Sep 18, 2005, at 7:17 PM, David Blevins wrote:
Just to remind everyone, svn doesn't have branches or tags and
nothing is ever gone or deleted, everything is still around, and
at any point in time we can patch an old release if we feel it's
really necessary.
-David
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