After seeing some heated discussions, I thought I would ask, was the
possibility of just having a separate module for every major rev 3-4-5
similar to the older system discussed?
With this method cvs operations are much quicker because you are not
keeping around thousands of changes in the module, most of which you may
rarely look at. If for some reason you do need to view the state of
main.c 4 years ago, you can always check out the corresponding major
version module.
I realize that the advantage of having one module for all major versions
(php-src) is that it is easy to merge changes between major versions,
but at some point the codebase will be completely different, so this
method is really only useful if the trees are very similar, and only in
the initial phases of the new major release. The merge advantage can be
easily done with plain diff and patch with separate modules, and it is
only a few extra steps.
Also, if there are any file/directory structure changes between major
versions, those can be quite the pain in the ass to administer when
everything is in one big module. We all know this is one of CVS's big
weaknesses.
I know changing the setup to this method would be a pain, but I thought
the concept should at least be considered.
-Jason
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