Re: Versioning svn checkouts [Was: Re: alpha/beta software in Fedora 8?]

[Nicolas Mailhot]

Le Jeu 29 novembre 2007 13:47, Petr Machata a écrit :
>  Nicolas Mailhot wrote:
> > I'm saying that srpms have a long live, and that with svn if you
> > request revision $number 5 years later if upstream has re-done its
> > svn
> > in the meanwhile what you'll get is not what you got 5 years before.
>
>  Agreed.  By then the upstream could disappear, migrate to whatever hip
>  vc system there is in five years, etc. 
The problem with svn is that the breakage is insidious, since the same
release numbers will be reused in the new tree without any special
warning. So explicit date is needed to disambiguate svn versions.

Regards,

-- 
Nicolas Mailhot

Versioning svn checkouts [Was: Re: alpha/beta software in Fedora 8?]

[Les Mikesell]

Nicolas Mailhot wrote:
>  Le Jeu 29 novembre 2007 13:47, Petr Machata a écrit :
> > Nicolas Mailhot wrote:
> >> I'm saying that srpms have a long live, and that with svn if you
> >> request revision $number 5 years later if upstream has re-done its
> >> svn
> >> in the meanwhile what you'll get is not what you got 5 years before.
> > Agreed.  By then the upstream could disappear, migrate to whatever hip
> > vc system there is in five years, etc.
>  
>  The problem with svn is that the breakage is insidious, since the same
>  release numbers will be reused in the new tree without any special
>  warning. So explicit date is needed to disambiguate svn versions. 
I'm not sure if dates work if you've merged repositories with dump/load 
or converted cvs projects and loaded them separately.  Explicit tags 
should be reliable, though, if you tag everything that is released.

-- 
   Les Mikesell
    lesmikesell(a)gmail.com

Versioning svn checkouts [Was: Re: alpha/beta software in Fedora 8?]

[Jesse Keating]

On Thu, 29 Nov 2007 07:42:08 -0600
Les Mikesell <lesmikesell(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote:

>  I'm not sure if dates work if you've merged repositories
> with
>  dump/load or converted cvs projects and loaded them separately.
>  Explicit tags should be reliable, though, if you tag everything that
>  is released. 
It's not necessarily about the dates working as an ability to go back
and verify, but the dates show when said snapshot was taken and can
give clue as to why the current snapshot with the same rev number
doesn't match.

-- 
Jesse Keating
Fedora -- All my bits are free, are yours?