[squeak-dev] Monticello and Branches

Igor Stasenko siguctua at gmail.com
Sat Feb 23 03:52:23 UTC 2008


On 23/02/2008, Steven W Riggins <mailinglists at geeksrus.com> wrote:
> I have spoken to Avi a little bit about this, but I need some help.
>
>  Sophie has tons of packages, 20+, plus all of the tweak and squeak
>  packages.
>
>  I need a way where I can take the current state of a config map and
>  branch it.  Really branch it, so any checkins on the branch are
>  CLEARLY going into the branch only.
>
>  Avi mentioned using new packages, but quite frankly that seems very
>  error prone and cumbersome, especially when you're not exactly sure
>  what to do.
>
>  In svn, I simply copy my current tree to a new 'directory' and I'm
>  done.  I can switch between the branches easily.
>
>  We're getting bitten doing real, crunch time development where I can't
>  just easily branch off the current state of our project as "1.0b10"
>  and then build, without others checking in code while I am doing this,
>  or, working on the branch for 3 days to get it stable while others
>  work on the trunk.
>
>  This is very important, so if any of you have solutions for now to use
>  MC like I use svn, I'd really appreciate it.
>
>  Thanks!
>
>  Steve
>
What stops you from doing snapshots to a different directory/repository?
 Here it is: a cheap way for branching :)


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Best regards,
Igor Stasenko AKA sig.



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