TypedControls branch? was Re: [Clam-devel] Bug solved for deleting Out In Ports and Out In Controls

[David García Garzón]

Don't do that, please. :-) Branches are like hell. Just keeping the branch up 
to date has a lot of problems. It is hard to guess which differences are 
because branch modifications and which ones because trunk evolution and 
moreover, which branch modifications from the branch point are unique and 
which ones are just merges from the trunk. Believe, you don't want that. 
Maybe using bazar, but svn doesn't cope with that gently. The merge is also a 
hard process. Are you sure, ok, so then proceed.

Needing branches are a symptom we are dealing with that project not in a 
proper way. First **those patches should have been sent to the list**. Even 
if they are not compiling, we could patch our sandboxes and see what is not 
compiling and helping. Any changes concerning new classes should be commited 
just to keep the delta as small as possible. The patches should contain just 
horizontal modifications on updated old files.

So, please, send the patches to the list and explain the issues you have with 
the code in front of us.

BTW: Jun and Pawell are waiting for commit access for 3 weeks, Pau, if you get 
it for Francisco in one day you are fuzzing lucky :-)


On Dijous 17 Juliol 2008, Pau Arumí wrote:
> On dj, 2008-07-17 at 14:10 -0300, Hernán Ordiales wrote:
> > On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 1:19 PM, Pau Arumí <parumi at iua.upf.edu> wrote:
> > > So I propose to create a branch in our subversion. This branch should
> > > live only during the controls transition, and the maintainers should
> > > keep all the changes in trunk commited in the branch. That is, in
> > > permanent state of merge with trunk.
> > >
> > > What do you think?
> >
> > I really like the idea. How we continue with this?
>
> Ok let's move quick. I've created a branch in commit 11621.
> Branches in svn are just copies. And they are cheap --it only copy files
> once are modified.
> So if there is some reason to not have such branch (maybe David have a
> reason against it) we'll roll it back easily.
>
> To checkout the branch (which is a copy of trunk/) do this:
>
> $ svn co http://iua-share.upf.edu/svn/clam/branches/typedcontrols
>
> I've asked the IUA sysadm to add Francisco as a commiter (this might
> take a day or so).  Hernan you can start commiting patches there.
>
> Hernan and Francisco, you should coordinate to keep adding all the
> changes in trunk to this branch, so we can keep in a "mergeable to
> trunk" state all the way. And of course, remember that this branch
> should be alive during a short lapse of time. Does it work for you?
>
> Instructions on how to copy changes between brances:
> http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.1/ch04s03.html
>
>
> About the launch/bazaar thing: I think it's something we want to explore
> in the future. It gives any developer the possibility to work in his
> patches with a bazaar branch. Then commiters can pull (mergeable)
> changes and land it to the main repo.
> The nice thing is that bazaar (like git) is prepared to work with
> "merge" operations. And is distributed, of course.
>
> P
>
>
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