Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] The road ahead...

[Marius Mauch <genone@gentoo.org>]

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On Sat, 22 Oct 2005 00:14:40 +0900
Jason Stubbs <jstubbs@gentoo.org> wrote:

> The cheapness is exactly why I was questioning. Consider:
> 
> # svn cp tags/2.0.53 branches/2.0.53-branch
> # cd branches/2.0.53-branch
> # patch < something-that-needs-fixing-now.patch
> # svn ci
> # cd ../..
> # svn cp branches/2.0.53-branch tags/2.0.53-r1
> # svn rm branches/2.0.53-branch
> # svn ci

The last fives steps are easier to do:
# svn ci # could even omit this, but that's bad practice
# svn mv . ../../tags/2.0.53-something
# cd ../..
# svn ci

> compared to:
> 
> # svn cp tags/2.0.53 tags/2.0.53-r1
> # cd tags/2.0.53-r1
> # patch < something-that-needs-fixing-now.patch
> # svn ci
> 
> With the way subversion works, I would have thought the end result
> would be identical...

It is, but the concept of a tag in vcs (as I understand it) is that
it's immutable, and branches are the mutable counterpart. Technically
it doesn't matter to svn.

Marius

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