subversion & patch management utilities

[maximus meridius <ma...@yahoo.com>]

Hi,

I'm quite new to using svn and I decided to start
using it to track 
changes in third-party software for assessing impact
(mainly api 
changes) that may affect our own software. I am
combining this with 
issue tracking using trac from edgewall.com. I have
setup DAV access to 
the repository and can use trac to browse the
repository and changesets.

The approach that I am taking is to import the first
release into an svn 
repository. I then use unix diff to generate a patch
file that contains 
the changes for a subsequent release. After applying
the patch file to 
the working copy of the first release, my working copy
now has the 
changes for the second release integrated. The problem
is that this does 
not account for files added or deleted between
releases. Are there any 
utilities available that can generate a patch file, an
archive of the 
added files and a set of svn add and svn delete
operations.

Is there a site containing resources such as the
repository management 
utilities I am looking for?

Thanks,

Graeme






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Re: subversion & patch management utilities

["kauer@ethz" <ka...@biplane.com.au>]

On Sun, 2006-02-19 at 13:37 -0800, maximus meridius wrote:
> The approach that I am taking is to import the first
> release into an svn repository. I then use unix diff to generate a patch
> file that contains the changes for a subsequent release. After applying
> the patch file to the working copy of the first release, my working copy
> now has the changes for the second release integrated. The problem
> is that this does not account for files added or deleted between
> releases. Are there any utilities available that can generate a patch file, an
> archive of the added files and a set of svn add and svn delete
> operations.

If you follow the method given in the SVN book (look in section 7 under
"Vendor branches") then you will get full history of all added and
deleted files, as well as all differences between old and new files.
There's a script that will automate a lot of it for you, too.

Regards, K.

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