On Fri, Sep 9, 2011 at 07:05, Daniel Shahaf <danie...@elego.de> wrote:
> Greg Stein wrote on Thu, Sep 08, 2011 at 23:43:04 -0400:
>> Also consider: the shelves can then act as multiplexors for the
>> working copy. You could have one shelf for trunk, one for
>> branches/1.7.x, one for 1.6.x, one for branches/fs-successor-ids, and
>> for some trunk changes that you set aside.
>
> Why do you have separate NODES and SHELF_NODES tables then? I'd
> intuitively expect the NODES table to be replaced by the SHELF_NODES
> table, i.e., every working copy state --- including the one immediately
> after 'checkout' --- becomes a shelf. (Though perhaps the first shelf
> is 'special' in one or more to-be-determined ways.)
True! Could certainly do that. A little trickier to upgrade, and lots
queries would need to be altered... but sure. We'd only have to take
that hit once, and add a 'shelf_id' to the NODES table.
>> I've had to use git lately, and our shelves could almost look like
>> git's branches. Swap around among them based on what you're doing at
>> the time.
>
> Usually want to hack on them concurrently --- i.e., to create a backport
> branch and 'make check' it while at the same time adding it to STATUS
> and looking at wc-queries.sql on trunk for someone on IRC. Having
> multiple shelves within a single working copy isn't good enough for
> such use.
Yup. Just saying.
Greg Hudson said this is more akin to git stash than branches. I
haven't used git's stashes to see how it actually differs from
branches. I guess it is simply that changing branches leaves local
mods, rather than stashing pseudo-reverts the local mods.
> Once we have a .svn area shared by multiple working copies, though,
> something like that would be useful --- perhaps, 'switch this wc to
> the most recent snapshot of branches/fs-progress that you have in .svn'.
> ('svn switch ^/subversion/branches/fs-progress@WCDB', or perhaps give it
> a symbolic name (and make 'update' change what the symbolic name points
> to).
I've found that git has symbolic names for repositories. Kinda handy
to refer to "myrepos" vs "upstream", rather than remembering the URLs.
Cheers,
-g
