RE: SVN-Related Practices and Customs

["Hanssens Bart" <Bart.Hanssens@fedict.be>]

Title: RE: SVN-Related Practices and Customs

Hi Dennis,


> You created the current oic SVN top-level of trunk/, tags/, and branches/.
> I was wondering if that was just an automatic replication of a common SVN practice
> or whether you have a strong requirement for using that structure across the SVN.

the trunk-tags-branches approach is common practice and endorsed by the SVN team
itself.
But I don't have strong feelings about it, so if you or someone else would like to
create a different layout, then that's perfectly fine with me.

Especially since we're just getting started using SVN as an OIC tool, we'll probably
need to experiment a little bit with it.


> There may need to be some consideration to how svn:external might be relied upon to
> "share" content between versions.  That prospect might be valuable to preserve (e.g.,
> for 1.1 tests that are also 1.2 tests, although the reorganization of 1.2 into three
> parts will also be challenging to match up against).

Not sure if we'll get much benefit of svn:external, IIRC, svn:external can only be
used to grab directories, not for files (unlike sharing in, say, Visual SourceSafe)
Perhaps setting a "odf-version" property is the way to go, to be discussed :-)


Best regards,

Bart