[Adium-devl] Version Control - To change or not to change? THAT is the question!

[David Smith]

	I don't have time to do a full response to this right now, but I did  
want to add two more things to the 'reasons to switch' list for  
consideration. My current development model is something like:

1) copy-paste my adium checkout folder
2) rename to adium-nameofproject
3) hack for a while

	When I don't do this, I inevitably end up with stale patches in my  
tree next time I need to work on something small; then I svn diff >  
somepatch.txt && svn revert -R ., and hope I didn't add enough files  
to confuse svn when I re-apply the patch later (I've had to blow away  
my checkout and redownload a number of times).

	Cheap local branches would make this a lot less painful, so I'm  
definitely interested in that part. The other thing that catches my  
eye is not having .svn directories. Maybe I'm just dumb here, but I've  
messed up way too many working copies accidentally copying directories  
from one checkout to another.

									David

On Jan 1, 2008, at 12:14 PM, Alan Humpherys wrote:

> Since I have some strong feelings here, I decided it was time to  
> "kick the Hornet's Nest" and write down my thoughts so I can come to  
> a better understanding of the project direction.
>
> <snip>
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