Re: How do you manage versions of your own code ?

On Wed, Feb 06, 2008 at 09:04:46AM +0530, Robins Tharakan wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> After going a bit of back and forth on different versions that I am working
> on I think I might as well ask how do you guys work on an open-source
> development project once you are disconnected ?
>
> I mean, if I do a svn co and start working, it wouldnt allow me to check in
> a version since its not a distributedVCS. If I use bzr-svn, it does
> checkout, but I still can't check in a half-way state since it tries to dump
> the patch to the online SVN too which of course fails.
>
> Apart from the current issue of me not having submit rights, how did you
> guys work on this when you don't have submit rights to a non-distributed VCS
> ?
> Did you just keep storing revision patches and patch / revert on the latest
> checked out revision as and when you needed to switch to an older version of
> your code ?
>
> (Btw, by version here I meant an older half-way-state of my own working
> code, not the PgAdmin version)

I'm never offline long enough for that to matter. Since you can do a diff
without being online, that's usually enough. If I do work on multiple
patches at the same time that aren't entirely isolated, I check out
multiple copies.

//Magnus