Re: Evaluating SmartSVN for vendor branch management

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> Hi Dwight,
>
> http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.1/ch07s05.html
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> should give a good overview on how to work with vendor branches/drops.
> Almost all commands mentioned there (copy, merge, etc.) are also
> available in SmartSVN. As far as I know, only "svn import" is missing,
> but ...
>
> > o Importing initial vendor product files
> > - We have tried Project>Create Module for this, but this adds .svn
> > directories into our vendor import directories which is definitely not
> > what we want. Rather, we desire "svn import" functionality.
>
> ... to track changes in a vendor branch it will anyway be necessary to
> have a subversioned project of your third-party libraries.
>
> > o Merging new vendor version files into our working copy files
> > - We desire functionality as good as or better than the
> > svn_load_dirs.pl file commonly used with command-line SVN.
>
> SmartSVN contains no such functionality.
>
> --
> Best regards,
> Marc Strapetz
> _____________
> syntevo.com
>
> dwfromm schrieb:
> >
> >
> > We have been evaluating SmartSVN for management of ongoing versions of
> > 3rd party (vendor) supplied product files that we heavily add to as
> > well as make customizations. We have been using CVS/SmartCVS for this
> > purpose previously, but would like to switch to SVN/SmartSVN if
> > managing vendor branches is well supported.
> >
> > However, I have seen very little mention of importing vendor source
> > files and merging differences of new versions into working copy files
> > either in this forum or in the SmartSVN help. It would be very helpful
> > for our evaluation if we had step-by-step-instruction for:
> >
> > o Importing initial vendor product files
> > - We have tried Project>Create Module for this, but this adds .svn
> > directories into our vendor import directories which is definitely not
> > what we want. Rather, we desire "svn import" functionality.
> >
> > o Merging new vendor version files into our working copy files
> > - We desire functionality as good as or better than the
> > svn_load_dirs.pl file commonly used with command-line SVN.
> >
> > We would very much appreciate some comments on whether SmartSVN is
> > currently capable of well supporting managing vendor branches (as
> > stated above) and if so how we can learn to use this functionality.
> >
> > Thanks, ~Dwight Fromm
> >
> >
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