[arch-dev-public] archrelease: svnmerge

[Dan McGee]

On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 6:53 AM, Thomas Bächler <thomas at archlinux.org> wrote:
> Am 11.02.2010 13:10, schrieb Pierre Schmitz:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> while having a little review of our devtools I noticed the we use svnmerge in
>> archrelease to merge changes from trunk into the repo dir. This is very
>> expensive and sometimes fails for more or less known reasons.
>>
>> So, I wonder why we don't just do something like this:
>>
>>       svn rm repos/extra-i686
>>       svn cp trunk repos/extra-i686
>>
>> I did not check if this would requrie a commit after the rm or if we could do
>> it in one run. But it should be a lot faster and safer though.
>
> We agreed a while back that we should do what you propose: We don't
> actually want the repos/ stuff to be merged with trunk, but be exact
> snapshots (tags) of trunk.

+1 to this.

-Dan