Re: svn layout confusion
On Tue, 2005-09-06 at 22:25 +0900, Horms wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 06, 2005 at 08:51:06AM -0400, Andres Salomon wrote:
> > Ok, so now that we have dists/sid and dists/trunk (which is for development
> > and experimental stuff); how is this actually supposed to work? I understand
> > the scenario when we have 2.6.12 in sid and 2.6.13rc in trunk; stick
> > any new development stuff in trunk, backport to sid if desired, do sid
> > releases from dists/sid, and experimental releases from dists/trunk. What
> > about the case where we have 2.6.13 in both? Are we supposed to do all
> > releases from trunk, and branch/cp to sid? Are we supposed to do releases
> > from sid, and keep trunk ready for 2.6.14 development; regularly
> > forward-porting changelogs and stuff?
>
> I think this is pretty confusing myself, though I believe that the idea
> is that if sid and trunk are the same, then you nuke the sid branch.
> So basically things only exist in sid/ if we are working on something
> newer than what is in sid (and being maintained).
>
Pretty much what I was thinking; why keep a branch around when we're not
using it? Why not just create trunk only when it's different from sid
(or vice versa, whatever the svn users like to call HEAD).
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