Re: How do you manage versions of your own code ?

Robins Tharakan wrote:
> After going a bit of back and forth on different versions that I am working
> on I think I might as well ask how do you guys work on an open-source
> development project once you are disconnected ?
>
> I mean, if I do a svn co and start working, it wouldnt allow me to check in
> a version since its not a distributedVCS. If I use bzr-svn, it does
> checkout, but I still can't check in a half-way state since it tries to dump
> the patch to the online SVN too which of course fails.
>
> Apart from the current issue of me not having submit rights, how did you
> guys work on this when you don't have submit rights to a non-distributed VCS
> ?
> Did you just keep storing revision patches and patch / revert on the latest
> checked out revision as and when you needed to switch to an older version of
> your code ?

I don't do much pgAdmin development, but with Postgres, I keep an
rsync'd copy of the whole CVS repository on my laptop, and work against
that. Much more convenient, you can do diffs, checkouts, view histories,
all offline and quickly.

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Heikki Linnakangas
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