[Box Backup-dev] 07-win32-fixes
Chris Wilson
boxbackup-dev at fluffy.co.uk
Mon Dec 12 20:57:37 GMT 2005
Hi Jonathan,
>> But copying is free (on the server) and making a copy is supposed to
>> be a standard (only?) way of creating a tag or branch with SVN, as far
>> as I know. I don't think you're supposed to check out the whole
>> repository :-).
>
> Whether you're supposed to do it or not, people do. Especially the
> people who are supposed to merge it all.
I never asked anybody to merge every single branch I ever made :-) But I'm
quite happy to delete the old tags now that I don't need them anymore. I'm
also quite happy to do the merging if people want me to (and I promise not
to check out the entire repository :-)
> Most of the problem seems to be that the Win32 port branch contains an
> entire copy of the Boost library for each sub-branch - presumably only
> the XML features of Boost were actually required, and in any case Boost
> should be installed separately from the application on a developer's
> machine. Boost itself is not modified for use in BB, so why include it
> in version control?
I didn't check in Boost, and it was one of the first things that Martin
and I removed from our working copies. It's only there in the old,
obsolete branches (some belonging to other people, that I didn't want to
touch).
> "Much harder" should not be confused with "not familiar". It is quite
> easy to retrieve the commit log for any given directory, and produce an
> individual diff covering each individually or any combination.
Well, it's not how I was taught to use SVN by the book. But I'm happy to
do it that way if people prefer.
Cheers, Chris.
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