[mythtv] development practices (regarding current live tv situation)

[Geoffrey Kruse]

On Nov 9, 2005, at 5:48 PM, andrew burke wrote:

>> And I would argue that it is easier for you to "svn update -r  
>> 7738" (and
>> using a LiveTV working build) than it is for everyone else to fork  
>> another
>> branch. If you don't like a rapidly developing source tree, use  
>> stable.
>
> People wouldn't have to fork, only Isaac would have had to work in  
> his own
> branch for doing that stuff.  Once it was done, he could merge it back
> into the main trunk and everyone else could continue to work without
> jumping through hoops.
>
>> Issac, when you say not very long? Any thoughts as to how long? A  
>> couple
>> of days? week? more? ;)
>
> I've read ahead to Isaac's response of a week.  A breakage for a  
> day might
> not have necessitated a branch, but a week of brokenness seems like it
> might have been a good thing to compartmentalize.
>
> Pulling a branch is pretty easy:
>
> svn copy svn+ssh://.../trunk svn+ssh://.../livetvbroken
>
> and then the merge would have been:
>
> svn merge svn+ssh://.../livetvbroken svn+ssh://.../trunk
>
> Doesn't seem all that difficult to me.
>
Regardless, this discussion is pointless, its Isaac's project and if  
he doesn't feel like making a branch, there is no reason to argue.

Geoff
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