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

[Panu Matilainen]

Ralf Corsepius wrote:
> 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.

"svn diff <uri-to-trunk> <uri-to-brach>" Yes it's longer to type...

> 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.

Nor mine about cvs :)

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

I do use cvs daily at work ... and well, I do prefer svn because of a few
things but it's not like it's heavensent by any means, just a slight
improvement for some things. People have different tastes, shrug.

   - Panu -