[Bf-committers] Requesting an SVN server update

[Benoit Bolsee]

This isn't exactly the subject of this thread but for those who are
expecting a very tedious merge with trunk when their gsoc project is
finished, I wrote some guidelines to merge a branch with trunk semi
automatically provided that the branch is perfectly in sync with trunk:

http://lists.blender.org/pipermail/bf-committers/2009-September/024588.h
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This won't be necessary when the SVN server is updated as --reintegrate
should work, but for the time being it is the fastest method I could
find.

/benoit

On Fri, 30 Jul 2010 21:27:12 -0700, Mitchell Stokes
<mogurijin at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello devs,
> 
> The version of Subversion that the SVN server is using 
> (1.4.3) is around 4 years old and is serious need of being 
> updated. 1.5.x made improvements to merging and I think 1.6.x 
> made improvements to resolving conflicts. With the amount of 
> branching that Blender does (10 branches this summer from GSoC
> alone) I would think that updating to a version of Subversion 
> that has better merging would be desired. I understand that 
> updating the server software can be a daunting (and often 
> disrupting) task, but I think doing an update once every 4 
> years isn't too much to ask for. Also, while on  the topic of 
> updating server software, what happened to the tracker updates?
> 
> I've spent yesterday and today trying to fix merging problems 
> that would not be present with a newer version of Subversion, 
> so I'm a little annoyed right now. As such, this message 
> might come across as a little harsher than I intended. Please 
> do not take offense as none was intended.
> 
> Cheers,
> Mitchell Stokes (Moguri)