In my opinion this sounds more like a coding issue than a source control issue,
unless I am misunderstanding you. I don't think svn should be used to control
the contents of your files. You need to make the script generic so one version
will work for all versions of RHEL. Then you may control one script with svn.
There are probably plenty of shell programming mechanisms you may use to get
the script to be more vanilla or generic and work on all RHEL versions. If
they indeed need to be very different then you should control them separately.
This is just my opinion though.KM
From: Jan De Luyck <mailinglists+users-subvers...@kcore.org>
To: users@subversion.apache.org
Sent: Monday, May 4, 2015 8:14 AM
Subject: Branch issue
Hello folks,
Perhaps a stupid subversion question, but one i haven't been able to figure out
yet:
I've got two scripts in the same directory, which are basically variants - one
for RHEL6, one for RHEL7. Most of the content will be the same, with small
changes here and there. The files are named according to the RHEL version.
Unfortunatly the scripts have to be completely self-contained, so using
modules/shared libraries/... is not an option.
Ideally I'd like to only have to manage one script, and pull the changes into
the second. But sofar I haven't figured out a way yet to do this. The only
thing I thought of is moving both to a separate dir, and branching one from the
other. Doesn't seem ideal though.
Any pointers/ideas how I could tackle this?
Kind regards
Jan
