[JIRA] [subversion-plugin] (JENKINS-25984) Jenkins subversion plugin does not handle git-flow style branch names

[dan...@beckweb.net (JIRA)]

Daniel Beck commented on JENKINS-25984 Jenkins subversion plugin does not handle git-flow style branch names From http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.7/svn.branchmerge.using.html, emphasis mine: The Key Concepts Behind Branching You should remember two important lessons from this section. First, Subversion has no internal concept of a branch—it knows only how to make copies. When you copy a directory, the resultant directory is only a “branch” because you attach that meaning to it. You may think of the directory differently, or treat it differently, but to Subversion it's just an ordinary directory that happens to carry some extra historical information. Second, because of this copy mechanism, Subversion's branches exist as normal filesystem directories in the repository. This is different from other version control systems, where branches are typically defined by adding extra-dimensional “labels” to collections of files. The location of your branch directory doesn't matter to Subversion. Most teams follow a convention of putting all branches into a /branches directory, but you're free to invent any policy you wish. Since branches are just directories, just like anything else in a repo, it makes sense from a tools perspective to assume one level of directories are branches, and not recurse. Aside from the performance issue, you'd need to offer every possible directory in the repository as a possible branch root directory. I think you'll also have a difficult time creating those Git-style branches in the first place except by manually creating the feature parent folder separately (which should give you a hint as to how well-supported this is in the first place). Different tools work differently, so arguing that it works in Git leads you nowhere. Not a bug IMO, and not something that needs support in the first place.

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