Re: Not ready for 8.3

On Sat, 19 May 2007, Andrew Dunstan wrote:

> What would making a branch actually do for you? The only advantage I can see
> is that it will give you a way of checkpointing your files.

Exactly. It's not as bad now, but when I was getting started there were
lots of times I got something working and I wanted a clean way to save it
in that state before I started messing with anything else--such that I
could backtrack what I did if I later broke it. This style of work has
some advantages for working on other people's patches as well, especially
if you're trying to review two at once and it takes you a while to
finish--the situation I always find myself in.

> I don't see how you can do it reasonably off a local cvs mirror - rsync
> will just blow away any changes you have checked in next time you sync
> with the master.

It's certainly not easy. I try not to let the fact that what I'd like to
do may actually be impossible ever discourage me.

There are at least three ways to approach this general problem just
counting the rsync/CVS variations, each with some obvious and some subtle
advantages/disadvantages. I'm still in the stage where I'm mapping out
the options.

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* Greg Smith gsmith(at)gregsmith(dot)com http://www.gregsmith.com Baltimore, MD