Re: Managing modifications to an open source product

2010-10-14 Thread Dan Nessett
On Fri, 15 Oct 2010 00:08:28 +0200, Stefan Sperling wrote: > On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 09:17:59PM +, Dan Nessett wrote: >> My question has to do with bypassing the fetch of the complete new MW >> version into our repository. (NB: MW revisions run about 150MB). Let me >> describe this in more det

Re: Managing modifications to an open source product

2010-10-14 Thread Stefan Sperling
On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 09:48:21PM +, Dan Nessett wrote: > Bad etiquette to answer my own question, but I just reread the Externals > Definition section of the book and found this: > > "An externals definition can point only to directories, not to files." > So, what I have described won't wo

Re: Managing modifications to an open source product

2010-10-14 Thread Stefan Sperling
On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 09:17:59PM +, Dan Nessett wrote: > My question has to do with bypassing the fetch of the complete new MW > version into our repository. (NB: MW revisions run about 150MB). Let me > describe this in more detail. > > + When we wish to upgrade to a new MW revision, check

Re: Managing modifications to an open source product

2010-10-14 Thread Geoff Hoffman
Dan, This isn't that much help but are you aware that svn export is exactly the same as svn checkout & run a script to delete all the .svn folders ...? The problem with stripping .svn from vendor checkout is then you cannot update it; you're forced to export the whole tree every time. The met

Re: Managing modifications to an open source product

2010-10-14 Thread Dan Nessett
On Thu, 14 Oct 2010 21:17:59 +, Dan Nessett wrote: > On Thu, 14 Oct 2010 21:55:08 +0200, Olivier Sannier wrote: > >> On 14/10/2010 21:45, Dan Nessett wrote: >>> On Thu, 14 Oct 2010 15:38:41 -0400, Bob Archer wrote: >>> > I develop for a site that uses Mediawiki (MW). We make some > mo

Re: Managing modifications to an open source product

2010-10-14 Thread Dan Nessett
On Thu, 14 Oct 2010 21:55:08 +0200, Olivier Sannier wrote: > On 14/10/2010 21:45, Dan Nessett wrote: >> On Thu, 14 Oct 2010 15:38:41 -0400, Bob Archer wrote: >> I develop for a site that uses Mediawiki (MW). We make some modifications to it before deployment. Generally, (using subversion

Re: Managing modifications to an open source product

2010-10-14 Thread Dan Nessett
On Thu, 14 Oct 2010 22:33:04 +0200, Stefan Sperling wrote: > On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 09:55:08PM +0200, Olivier Sannier wrote: >> On 14/10/2010 21:45, Dan Nessett wrote: >> >On Thu, 14 Oct 2010 15:38:41 -0400, Bob Archer wrote: >> >>>Generally, (using subversion) we >> >>>check out a tagged versio

Re: Managing modifications to an open source product

2010-10-14 Thread Stefan Sperling
On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 09:55:08PM +0200, Olivier Sannier wrote: > On 14/10/2010 21:45, Dan Nessett wrote: > >On Thu, 14 Oct 2010 15:38:41 -0400, Bob Archer wrote: > >>>Generally, (using subversion) we > >>>check out a tagged version into a workspace, recursively delete the > >>>.svn directories,

Re: Managing modifications to an open source product

2010-10-14 Thread Olivier Sannier
On 14/10/2010 21:45, Dan Nessett wrote: On Thu, 14 Oct 2010 15:38:41 -0400, Bob Archer wrote: I develop for a site that uses Mediawiki (MW). We make some modifications to it before deployment. Generally, (using subversion) we check out a tagged version into a workspace, recursively delete the

Re: Managing modifications to an open source product

2010-10-14 Thread Dan Nessett
On Thu, 14 Oct 2010 15:38:41 -0400, Bob Archer wrote: >> I develop for a site that uses Mediawiki (MW). We make some >> modifications to it before deployment. Generally, (using subversion) we >> check out a tagged version into a workspace, recursively delete the >> .svn directories, modify a small

RE: Managing modifications to an open source product

2010-10-14 Thread Bob Archer
> I develop for a site that uses Mediawiki (MW). We make some > modifications to it before deployment. Generally, (using > subversion) we check out a tagged version into a workspace, > recursively delete the .svn directories, modify a small number of > files, add some of our own extensions, and the

Managing modifications to an open source product

2010-10-14 Thread dan nessett
I develop for a site that uses Mediawiki (MW). We make some modifications to it before deployment. Generally, (using subversion) we check out a tagged version into a workspace, recursively delete the .svn directories, modify a small number of files, add some of our own extensions, and then commi