Re: The importance of working in branches

2007-09-08 Thread Jason Dillon
Have you guys tried using SVK on the maven tree in the ASF SVN? This is a really kick ass tool for managing branches and merging repos. Its like Perforce for SVN... er, well kinda. I really wanted to use this for Geronimo, but the huge singleton ASF SVN repo is not really helping out, act

Re: The importance of working in branches

2007-09-07 Thread John Casey
I thought we'd all agreed to use branches as a measure for preserving stability in the trunk as much as was reasonable. This was awhile back, but I'm sure I can find that thread if I need to. FWIW, major refactorings are no different from new features in my book, and if the tables had been

Re: The importance of working in branches

2007-09-07 Thread Jason van Zyl
On 7 Sep 07, at 3:52 PM 7 Sep 07, John Casey wrote: I thought we'd agreed awhile back to do this, but apparently that's not the case. For big features sure. I wasn't adding any new features. I'm getting rid of the ton of crap lying around to prepare for more people being able to unders

The importance of working in branches

2007-09-07 Thread John Casey
I thought we'd agreed awhile back to do this, but apparently that's not the case. When I updated from Subversion today, I got a nasty surprise. Lo and behold, it would not bootstrap! I didn't find much discussion on the dev list about a massive reorganization (none, in fact), and the numb