This is how we run our back-compat tests. Ie, when you run "ant test-tag", it will checkout the current back-compat tag into tags/<tag name>, and run those tests against current trunk. This catches us if we accidentally break back-compat.
Sometimes changes to trunk require acceptable changes to back-compat tests, eg, if a given test was using an internal API, or we decided to make an exception to back-compat, etc. In this case, the tag (which is stored in common-build.xml, as compatibility.tag) is advanced. So, if you keep a long checkout, over time you'll accumulate lots of these dirs under tags. You can safely remove all of them (or, all but the most recent).. Mike On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 12:19 AM, George Aroush <geo...@aroush.net> wrote: > Hi folks, > > Why do I see \java\tags\lucene_*_back_compat_tests_2009*\ directories (well > over 100 so far) when I SVN update? > > Thanks. > > -- George > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: java-dev-unsubscr...@lucene.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: java-dev-h...@lucene.apache.org > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: java-dev-unsubscr...@lucene.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: java-dev-h...@lucene.apache.org
