Re: Tags/branches with Subversion, Best Practices?

On 6/29/2010 8:39 AM, Antoine Levy-Lambert wrote:
> Wawok, Brian wrote:
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Doug Breaux [mailto:[email protected]]
>>
>>
>> Another question is whether there's any way to have CC "reuse" project
>> definitions. I really don't want to have to maintain two set of projects with
>> the only difference being the SVN path.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Doug
>>
>> look at making a project plugin ala http://cruisecontrol.sourceforge.net/main/plugins.html#preconfiguration
>>
>>
> making a project plugin is a good tip.
>
> I make CruiseControl include files where the project definitions look like
>
>
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
> <!DOCTYPE cruisecontrol [
> <!ENTITY branch.entity SYSTEM "branch.entity">
> ]>
> <cruisecontrol>
>    &ivybranch.entity;
>
> <project name="foo_${branch}">
> ...
> </project>
>
> <project name="bar_${branch}">
> ...
> </project>
>
> </cruisecontrol>
>
> the branch.entity will contain<property name="branch" value="trunk"/>
> for instance.
>
> The cruisecontrol config file with the list of projects should be also
> maintained in different branches to record changes of the list of
> projects in your build stack, and merged at the same time as the rest of
> the code.
>
> Regards,
>
> Antoine

That all sounds promising, although I confess I can't follow most of it. Does 
it depend on Ivy?


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