[patch] Bump release [Was: apt-rpm 0.5.15lorg3.2 released!]

Ralf Corsepius rc040203 at freenet.de
Thu Jun 22 01:03:45 PDT 2006


On Thu, 2006-06-22 at 10:56 +0300, Panu Matilainen wrote:
> Ralf Corsepius wrote:
> > On Thu, 2006-06-22 at 10:34 +0300, Panu Matilainen wrote:
> >> Ralf Corsepius wrote:
> >> > On Thu, 2006-06-22 at 10:01 +0300, Panu Matilainen wrote:
> >> >> Ralf Corsepius wrote:
> >> >> > On Wed, 2006-06-21 at 23:41 -0700, Panu Matilainen wrote:
> >> >> >> On Thu, 22 Jun 2006, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
> >> >> >
> >> >> >> > Are you using branches?
> >> >> >>
> >> >> >> Yes, 3.2 is a highly conservative bugfix-only release from a
> >> separate
> >> >> >> branch. I thought that would've been obvious from the changelog.
> >> >> > Nope. Where in SVN is it? 8¹]
> >> >>
> >> >> Branches live in http://svn.laiskiainen.org/apt-rpm/branches/ and
> >> >> released
> >> >> versions (tags) are in http://svn.laiskiainen.org/apt-rpm/tags/
> >> >
> >> >> > [1] branches in SVN suck. CVS handles them much better.
> >> >>
> >> >> I beg to differ. It's just very different from CVS and takes some
> >> time
> >> >> to
> >> >> get used to.
> >> > Well, a very long leaning curve.
> >> >
> >> > With cvs, you'd never seen the question above, "cvs log" would have
> >> told
> >> > me.
> >> > With svn cutting a diff between trunk and release is much easier, with
> >> > cvs cutting diffs in general is much easier, ... well, to me, from a
> >> > user perspective, svn is nothing but one big inconvenience.
> >>
> >> Heh, and for me cutting diffs from cvs is what I probably hate most
> >> about
> >> it :) With svn one can just look at 'svn log' in another window and svn
> >> diff -rX:Y, couldn't be any easier IMO.
> > And how do you do this with cvs?
> >
> > cvs diff -u -r X -Y ...
> 
> Yeah, except then a change touches several files it gets uglier, and
> hunting down versions from individual files is a pain anyway.
> 
> > And how do you cut a diff between a branch and trunk?
> > cvs diff -u -r branch_tag ...
> 
> branch vs trunk in cvs doesn't bother me,
Yes, svn doesn't even support this notion.

Once you are used to them, you miss them in svn and consider svn as a
regression.

>  it's the individual
> "changesets". cvsps helps with that of course but ...
> 
> BTW this is getting wildly off-topic :)
Yes, ... but this doesn't change my opinion on svn.

svn supports a couple of features cvs doesn't but I can't find much
things convincing about it.

Ralf





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