Re: Release Review

Posted by Yoav Shapira-2 on Sep 10, 2006; 2:43pm
URL: http://ofbiz.116.s1.nabble.com/Incubator-September-Report-tp171490p171512.html

Jacopo,

On 9/10/06, Jacopo Cappellato <[hidden email]> wrote:
> in the section "Steps for a branch in preparation for a real release" I
> think that the steps #1, 2, 3 (checkout, copy, commit) can be replaced
> by one svn command (server side copy):
>
> svn copy -m "" https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator/ofbiz/trunk
> https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator/ofbiz/branches/${branch-name}
>
> (I have to check the syntax... this is off the top of my head)

Your syntax is right, and this remote svn copy is the preferred method
for tagging and branching because it's atomic.  Just remember to give
a real comment to -m, not the empty string ;)  -m "cutting branch 4.0"
is an example...

Yoav