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

On Feb 6, 2008 3:34 AM, Robins Tharakan <tharakan@gmail.com> 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 just keep multiple copies of the tree around if I'm working on more
than one large project at a time, and take periodic diff's against SVN
if I think I need to. I've never really found the need for a
distributed scm with pgAdmin.

/D