Branches for large patches?

2010-06-10 Thread Michael Busch
Hi All, When working on large patches, such as LUCENE-2324, I find it always troublesome to use patch files only to track progress. Since branching in svn works fine now (since 1.5) I'd like to create a branch for 2324. The big advantage is that everyone can track progress much more easily

Re: Branches for large patches?

2010-06-10 Thread Michael Busch
10, 2010 12:16 PM To: dev@lucene.apache.org Subject: Re: Branches for large patches? +1 to option 2 - I like feature branches more than than an issue/patch branch approach - large features often span many issues/patches. Option 2 can also really be a superset of option 1. - Mark http

Re: Branches for large patches?

2010-06-10 Thread Simon Willnauer
Message- From: ext Mark Miller [mailto:markrmil...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, June 10, 2010 12:16 PM To: dev@lucene.apache.org Subject: Re: Branches for large patches? +1 to option 2 - I like feature branches more than than an issue/patch branch approach - large features often span many issues

Re: Branches for large patches?

2010-06-10 Thread Michael McCandless
+1 for option 2! Mike On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 11:17 AM, Michael Busch busch...@gmail.com wrote: Hi All, When working on large patches, such as LUCENE-2324, I find it always troublesome to use patch files only to track progress.  Since branching in svn works fine now (since 1.5) I'd like to