Jun
27
2007
We use SVN on a project with a lot of small branches, i.e. a branch for almost every non-trivial feature. This is not a particularly pleasant want to use SVN, but it meets another important need for our project: code review on the way in to the trunk (as a “gate”), rather than code review [...]
Tags: source-control, xpstl
Jun
27
2007
There’s a lot of buzz about Steve Yegge’s “port” of Rails to JavaScript, and Steve has now provided (in his funny, self-deprecating style) the background of how it came to be. He doesn’t quite say it explicitly in this post, but I think it reveals that the “Next Big Language” he has been hinting [...]
Tags: commentary, java, lua, programming, python, rails, ruby
Jun
08
2007
Last month, I described an approach using SVK to remotely clone and then “svnadmin dump” an SVN repository. It turns out that there is an easier way “in the box” in SVN 1.4: the svnsync tool. Bob Ippolito describes how to do it, here are the minimal steps:
$ MYREPO=/home/me/someplace (do not use ~username, use /home/username)
$ [...]
Tags: source-control