Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP XX: Subversion for Gentoo Hosted Projects

[Dan Armak]

On Friday 11 March 2005 02:06, Martin Schlemmer wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-03-10 at 20:19 +0200, Dan Armak wrote:
> > On Thursday 10 March 2005 18:12, Aaron Walker wrote:
> > > http://dev.gentoo.org/~ka0ttic/tmp/svn-glep.txt
> > >
> > > comments?
> >
> > I'm a fan of subversion. Hosted an ebuild overlay (the original kde split
> > ebuilds) at berlios.de because we only had cvs. So I'm obviously glad to
> > see this :-)
>
> Big yes here too.
>
> > You write that subversion supports changesets, but AFAIK it doesn't, and
> > the Subversion Book seems to confirm this. What exactly do you mean by
> > changesets? I'm not sure what changesets are myself, but fex. there's no
> > SVN format for describing a commit's contents (properties, moves, ...)
> > which can be applied to a working copy (as svn merge would).
>
> Hrm, I would like this cleared up as well, as I also was made to think
> it could ...
Looking at the svn docs again, they call the changes made by a revision a 
changeset. But they do make the point that what I described above is 
impossible - IOW svn merge can't accept output to a file, and svn diff only 
outputs the info an ordinary diff does. svn also can't track these changesets 
when porting between branches (arch is supposed to be good at this) - the 
docs advise you to put 'ported rev X from branch Y' as the commit message 
when porting.

So svn does support what they call 'changesets' - but in svn parlance, 
changesets don't really mean anything...

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