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Re: Is this feasible: Trunk files that update branches also
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Matt Riechers |
Subject: |
Re: Is this feasible: Trunk files that update branches also |
Date: |
Wed, 07 Nov 2001 08:11:36 -0500 |
Tobias Frech wrote:
>
> As we have different releases of the software we
> would like to "split" the manual in different versions. The easy way
> would be to branch and tag the whole stuff and have a totally separate
> branch from the main trunk.
This problem sounds a lot like software that supports multiple platforms...
Perhaps you could ignore branches (and solving the problem by using CVS) all
together. Instead, a subdirectory somewhere in the tree (where it makes sense)
would hold the data unique to each release. For example:
/project
/etc
/rel-foo-specific
/rel-bar-specific
/html
/rel-foo-specific
/rel-bar-specific
or you could reverse the layout and make the release-specific directories the
top-level, with etc and html replicated underneath as needed. Either way, you
would handle the release combinations in the build system.
-Matt