On Sun, 2008-06-22 at 20:45 +0200, Roland Weber wrote: > Robert Burrell Donkin wrote: > > http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator/rat/main/trunk/scan/ is code > > used to scan distribution directories for changes. i'm currently using a > > svn:externals to import trunk but i'd prefer to be able to control > > changes. so i'm plan to create a branch (incubator-site, perhaps) for > > this purpose and periodically merge the changes made in head onto this > > branch. > > > > can anyone see any problems with this approach? > > If you really want to selectively merge individual changes into > a tag, I don't see a problem. If you just want to decouple from > development in trunk and occasionally update the tag with > everything in trunk, it might be cheaper to just reference > a specific revision of the trunk in svn:externals and update > the revision number once in a while. > > Disclaimer: I haven't tried that yet, I'm just guessing that > one can reference a specific revision via URL.
i don't know whether that's possible either: perhaps i'll give it a go to see whether it works - robert
