SVN/CVS and Branching
Jeff Dyke
jeff.dyke at gmail.com
Thu Feb 19 08:05:00 EST 2009
On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 7:57 AM, David Stanek <dstanek at dstanek.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 7:10 AM, Jeff Dyke <jeff.dyke at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Fair enough. Say my project is called foo, and it has many
>> submodules. So there are imports that may look like `import foo.bar`
>> or `from foo.bar import baz`, if i change the top level directory, it
>> is no longer foo and then those imports do not work as originally
>> written. The way i currently do this is to create a branch, say
>> foo2, and create a symbolic link named foo pointing at foo2, after
>> renaming foo, when i want to work on the branch and remove the link
>> when i want to work on the head. This actually works fine, but
>> thought there may be a better way.
>>
>> Jeff
>>
>
> I think that your project structure is faulty. In Subversion I do
> something like:
>
> * FooProject/trunk/foo
> * FooProject/branches/TRY-foo2
>
> TRY-foo2 is an svn cp of trunk so checking out TRY-foo2 gives you a
> TRY-foo2 directory containing a foo package. My DVCS projects go
> essentially the same thing.
I think your correct. I picked up this habit from someone else and
blindly kept going.
Thanks to both you and Andrew for the comments. I think i'll work on
making a switch.
>
>
> --
> David
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>
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