On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 12:43 PM, Rich Bowen <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > On Feb 19, 2009, at 22:55, rick c wrote: > > > The other issue is with lack of knowledge. To someone who lacks > > experience, creating branches is scary, especially to one who has > > screwed up the repository in a major way before. :) > > I volunteer myself, and I know that there are a handful of other > people also willing to do this - If you want to create a branch, say > so on IRC, and I'll tell you the commands to type. Then, when you're > ready to merge trunk up to your branch, say so, and someone will help > you with that. And when you're ready to merge back to trunk, likewise. I do agree with rick_c. Obviously, merging is even more of an intimidating process than branching. But we can always ask someone who's more knowledgeable to actually do the merge. And I am sure many would be happy to help with this. I personally am going to pester Rich to merge my branches, if any :) > Yeah, it's scary the first few times, but it's reversible. Any > breakage can be reverted. So even if you screw something up, it's not > a big real. It can be reversed. svn makes it very safe to experiment. > And there are dozens of sandbox svn repos out there that you can > experiment in. > I don't think anyone would want their branch/merge to look messed up. Hence the intimidation. I constantly test my commits play around on a local sandbox SVN. And it helps a lot. > -- > "There are two kinds of light--the glow that illuminates, and the > glare that obscures." > James Thurber > > > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/habari-dev -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
