Re: [PHP-DEV] svn checkout suggestion

2009-07-17 Thread Jani Taskinen
On 07/17/2009 01:24 AM, Jani Taskinen wrote: Rasmus Lerdorf wrote: One of the benefits of svn is that we can do cross-branch commit pretty easily now and thus avoid multiple similar commits with annoying MFH/MFB commit log messages that are hard to track. I did a commit today on all 3

Re: [PHP-DEV] svn checkout suggestion

2009-07-17 Thread Davey Shafik
On Jul 16, 2009, at 08:01 PM, shire wrote: Pierre Joye wrote: On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 12:45 AM, shiresh...@tekrat.com wrote: Jani Taskinen wrote: Rasmus Lerdorf wrote: One of the benefits of svn is that we can do cross-branch commit pretty easily now and thus avoid multiple similar

Re: [PHP-DEV] svn checkout suggestion

2009-07-17 Thread Jeff Griffiths
On 17/07/09 8:31 AM, Davey Shafik wrote: ... More importantly, the branch/merge support in SVN is limited to temporary feature/bug branches. You branch, *complete* the feature/bug fix, and then merge it in. After that, if you decide to carry on in your branch, SVN's merge tracking cannot handle

Re: [PHP-DEV] svn checkout suggestion

2009-07-17 Thread Lukas Kahwe Smith
On 17.07.2009, at 19:40, Jeff Griffiths wrote: On 17/07/09 8:31 AM, Davey Shafik wrote: ... More importantly, the branch/merge support in SVN is limited to temporary feature/bug branches. You branch, *complete* the feature/ bug fix, and then merge it in. After that, if you decide to carry on

Re: [PHP-DEV] svn checkout suggestion

2009-07-17 Thread Jeff Griffiths
On 17/07/09 12:24 PM, Lukas Kahwe Smith wrote: ... also using merge tracking is only fun if everybody does it .. because if only some people use it .. they first have to figure out which things have not been merged via svn merge, as svn merge updates its metadata. when merging you can either

Re: [PHP-DEV] svn checkout suggestion

2009-07-17 Thread shire
Davey Shafik wrote: More importantly, the branch/merge support in SVN is limited to temporary feature/bug branches. You branch, *complete* the feature/bug fix, and then merge it in. After that, if you decide to carry on in your branch, SVN's merge tracking cannot handle the tracking of changes.

[PHP-DEV] svn checkout suggestion

2009-07-16 Thread Rasmus Lerdorf
One of the benefits of svn is that we can do cross-branch commit pretty easily now and thus avoid multiple similar commits with annoying MFH/MFB commit log messages that are hard to track. Please don't attempt to check out all of php/php-src or pecl. I made the mistake of checking out all of

Re: [PHP-DEV] svn checkout suggestion

2009-07-16 Thread Jani Taskinen
Rasmus Lerdorf wrote: One of the benefits of svn is that we can do cross-branch commit pretty easily now and thus avoid multiple similar commits with annoying MFH/MFB commit log messages that are hard to track. I did a commit today on all 3 branches and it worked fine except for the fact that

Re: [PHP-DEV] svn checkout suggestion

2009-07-16 Thread shire
Jani Taskinen wrote: Rasmus Lerdorf wrote: One of the benefits of svn is that we can do cross-branch commit pretty easily now and thus avoid multiple similar commits with annoying MFH/MFB commit log messages that are hard to track. I did a commit today on all 3 branches and it worked fine

Re: [PHP-DEV] svn checkout suggestion

2009-07-16 Thread Jeff Griffiths
On 16/07/09 3:45 PM, shire wrote: ... Do we have a long-term plan of using actual merge commands/tools to merge our branches rather than duplicating commits or manually merging? I think this could speed up development and allow us to have more control over releases, versions, etc. I've seen

Re: [PHP-DEV] svn checkout suggestion

2009-07-16 Thread shire
Jeff Griffiths wrote: On 16/07/09 3:45 PM, shire wrote: ... Do we have a long-term plan of using actual merge commands/tools to merge our branches rather than duplicating commits or manually merging? I think this could speed up development and allow us to have more control over releases,

Re: [PHP-DEV] svn checkout suggestion

2009-07-16 Thread Pierre Joye
On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 12:45 AM, shiresh...@tekrat.com wrote: Jani Taskinen wrote: Rasmus Lerdorf wrote: One of the benefits of svn is that we can do cross-branch commit pretty easily now and thus avoid multiple similar commits with annoying MFH/MFB commit log messages that are hard to

Re: [PHP-DEV] svn checkout suggestion

2009-07-16 Thread David Soria Parra
On 2009-07-16, Pierre Joye pierre@gmail.com wrote: I doubt any tools can really help to automatically help to merge changes from one branch to another (in php). However there are many very good merging tools (with UI) out there to ease this process (meld, winmerge, etc.). In that case

Re: [PHP-DEV] svn checkout suggestion

2009-07-16 Thread shire
Pierre Joye wrote: On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 12:45 AM, shiresh...@tekrat.com wrote: Jani Taskinen wrote: Rasmus Lerdorf wrote: One of the benefits of svn is that we can do cross-branch commit pretty easily now and thus avoid multiple similar commits with annoying MFH/MFB commit log messages