Re: Subversion and RPG source change management

Right. Among other things, the IFS portion would contain the .svn subdirectory and the various hidden content therein. The Subversion tutorial makes it sound like some SVN commands operate only on those directories, which it defines as "working copies", perhaps without any immediate interaction with the repository. Setting file properties, such as "member name", seem to operate only on the local file system. Later, the properties would be automatically submitted to the repository during a "commit". Of course, we'd need something additional, and IBM i specific, for keeping our product libraries in sync with "working copies (IFS directories)", in addition to keeping working copies in sync with repositories.

-Nathan.


----- Original Message ----
From: Richard Schoen <richard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Tue, May 25, 2010 1:18:23 PM
Subject: Re: Subversion and RPG source change management

Actually if you're going to use SVN at all, the IFS portion of the
equation is always needed because it is the middleman between the SVN
repository and source files for an application build.

If you were to use my concept of "source files as masters or what you
call a project library", there might be an SEU command to copy/check out
the source member to your library so you can work on it. Then when you
promote it back to the master source member it could get auto-committed
to SVN.

In our case we use a master library for each product.
Ex: SRCPRDNAM

If each developer could check out (make a copy of) the source member
from SRCPRDNAME to their DEVLIB and then promote it back to SRCPRDNAM
which would auto-commit the member that might be useful.

This same concept could work for RDI or SEU/PDM.

Not sure if that's what you were envisioning.

Regards,
Richard Schoen
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