[Tilesathome] 'stable' t at h version

[Knut Arne Bjørndal]

On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 09:52:36AM -0400, Matthias Julius wrote:
> Carsten Möller <cmindividual at gmx.de> writes:
> 
> > If it's stable, just svn-copy it to e.g. \tags\release01
> > It's just a pointer, not a physical copy, so don't worry.
> > Maybe this should be anchored in the config file so
> > one can decide whether he or she wants to render
> > safely or test an experimantal version.
> 
> Currently the client only does 'svn up' for its automatic updates.
> This wouldn't be so simple with each new release being copied into a
> new directory.  It would then need to be told by the server how the
> new release is called and do 'svn switch <new_release>'.
> 
> Another approach could be to have the server tell clients to which rev
> to update to and clients then do 'svn up -r<new_rev>'.  This has the
> disadvantage that it makes it impossible to apply a bug-fix to the
> stable version.

It would be much simpler and cleaner to have a single stable directory
that most clients check out, and the clients can then just run svn
up. If you want to test a branch or anything you just "svn switch" to
it.

Yes, this requires merging, but at least with svk it really easy to do
this.

-- 
Knut Arne Bjørndal
aka Bob Kåre
bob+osm at cakebox.net
bobkare at irc
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