I was thinking about it the other way around. If a company or individual developer wanted to maintain their own repository and occasionally sync up with an official OfBiz branch or trunk. And they wanted to maintain a copy of the whole stack, not just an individual component. It is not always realistic to keep customizations separate.
The "vendor branch" would be a clean copy of OfBiz branch or trunk in your local repository with which you could occasionally merge. This chapter in the svn book is a bit complex so maybe I misread it. Vince Clark Global Era The Freedom of Open Source [EMAIL PROTECTED] (303) 493-6723 ----- Original Message ----- From: "BJ Freeman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [email protected] Sent: Monday, November 12, 2007 7:48:01 PM (GMT-0700) America/Denver Subject: Re: Best practice to merge your custom OFBiz with official weekly build There was some discussion before becoming a Apache incubator project about contributions (/vendor) that is similar to the svnbook, if I understand it correctly. it did not meet with much acceptance. Not sure with current man power levels it is something ofbiz wants to take on. also if you going to do a application, like I did, before we had the branch, it is almost impossible to get any development done if the trunk is continually changing and I have figure out if it is a bug created by my coding or from some commit from the trunk. Vince M. Clark sent the following on 11/12/2007 5:23 PM: > There is a chapter in the svn book about vendor branch management. > http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.4/svn.advanced.vendorbr.html#svn.advanced.vendorbr.general > > > Probably very useful if you can afford the overhead. > > Vince Clark > Global Era > The Freedom of Open Source > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > (303) 493-6723 > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "BJ Freeman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [email protected] > Sent: Monday, November 12, 2007 5:44:09 PM (GMT-0700) America/Denver > Subject: Re: Best practice to merge your custom OFBiz with official weekly > build > > I created a separate folder and put my changes there. > if it was a service then I change the name of the service and put in my > folder. > > As a note, unless you want to spend time debugging the new submissions, > and you don't need the latests and greatest, I suggest you use the branch. > > http://docs.ofbiz.org/display/OFBADMIN/Apache+OFBiz+Getting+Started > > > > Vedam B sent the following on 11/12/2007 4:14 PM: >> Hi, >> >> I wanted to customize the OFBiz version. Also, I wanted to get the latest >> updates from the official weekly build and merge with my custom OFBiz. >> Any one tried this, what are the problems faced? >> >> What are the best practices to achieve this? >> >> Regards >> Vedam >> >
