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

Panu Matilainen pmatilai at laiskiainen.org
Thu Jun 22 00:56:13 PDT 2006


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, it's the individual
"changesets". cvsps helps with that of course but ...

BTW this is getting wildly off-topic :)

   - Panu -




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