[bt-devel] QtWebKit DOM access

[Raoul Snyman]

Hi Guys,

On Thursday 15 January 2009 19:16:40 Martin Gruner wrote:
> ok. Whenever I do a release, I create a tag that allows to create a branch
> off from that particular state, such as "rel-1-7". I'm ready to create
> branches if we really need them. And you have SVN write access, so you can
> also create branches for your own development at any time.

Having a little bit of experience with Subversion on the openlp.org project, I 
thought I'd just lend my knowledge with regards to Subversion branching and 
tagging here...

In Subversion, a branch and a tag are in essence exactly the same thing. They 
are both simply a copy of the code at a certain point. A branch is then 
developed further, whereas a tag can be used to export that code at that 
point.

When it comes to branching and merging, Subversion is a breeze. I branched 
openlp.org at one stage, because I thought we'd be doing bug fixing on the 
branch, and doing further development on trunk. At the end of each bugfix 
release, I tagged the branch, and then merged the branch back into trunk. 
Contrary to my expectations, the merging was totally painless.

Hope this helps!

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