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Re: [Monotone-devel] restrictions and SVN type branches/tags?
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Richard Levitte - VMS Whacker |
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Re: [Monotone-devel] restrictions and SVN type branches/tags? |
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Mon, 02 Aug 2004 23:20:37 +0200 (CEST) |
In message <address@hidden> on Mon, 2 Aug 2004 16:56:27 +0200, Tobias Hunger
<address@hidden> said:
tobias> Having said that, I was wondering whether subversion-style
tobias> branching/tagging would be an option with that code.
tobias> Subversion has no special support for those operations but
tobias> recommends a tree structure like this:
tobias> /
tobias> +- trunk
tobias> +- branches
tobias> +- tags
tobias>
tobias> The trunk directory holds the head version (in monotone's case
tobias> the heads) of the sources. To tag a version you just copy the
tobias> head over into the tag directory. Branching is a similar copy
tobias> operation. Copy of course does not duplicate the data but sets
tobias> up the database "symlinking" to the file/version.
But this builds on subversion's implementation of branches and tags as
new directories. In monotone, branches and tags are special
certificates connected to each version of a file, and has no
association with directories at all, so basically, the above would be
utterly meaningless.
I understand the reasons for the way subversion does it, at least as
shown in the book. monotone solves the problem they show (the you
vs. Sally problem in chapter 4) a bit differently, by supporting
several heads in any branch, as well as branching itself.
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- [Monotone-devel] restrictions and SVN type branches/tags?, Tobias Hunger, 2004/08/02
- Re: [Monotone-devel] restrictions and SVN type branches/tags?,
Richard Levitte - VMS Whacker <=
- Re: [Monotone-devel] restrictions and SVN type branches/tags?, Derek Scherger, 2004/08/02
- Re: [Monotone-devel] restrictions and SVN type branches/tags?, Richard Levitte - VMS Whacker, 2004/08/03
- Re: [Monotone-devel] restrictions and SVN type branches/tags?, Derek Scherger, 2004/08/04
- Re: [Monotone-devel] restrictions and SVN type branches/tags?, Richard Levitte - VMS Whacker, 2004/08/04
- [Monotone-devel] Re: restrictions and SVN type branches/tags?, graydon hoare, 2004/08/04
- [Monotone-devel] Re: restrictions and SVN type branches/tags?, Richard Levitte - VMS Whacker, 2004/08/04
- [Monotone-devel] Server up, Richard Levitte - VMS Whacker, 2004/08/04
- [Monotone-devel] Re: Server up, Bruce Stephens, 2004/08/04
- Re: [Monotone-devel] Re: Server up, Richard Levitte - VMS Whacker, 2004/08/09
- [Monotone-devel] Re: Re: Server up, graydon hoare, 2004/08/09