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Version Control with Subversion, 2nd Edition
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Version Control with Subversion, 2nd Edition

by C. Michael Pilato, Ben Collins-Sussman, Brian W. Fitzpatrick
September 2008
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
432 pages
13h 57m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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Changelists

It is commonplace for a developer to find himself working at any given time on multiple distinct changes to a particular bit of source code. This isn’t necessarily due to poor planning or some form of digital masochism. A software engineer often spots bugs in his peripheral vision while working on some nearby chunk of source code. Or perhaps he’s halfway through some large change when he realizes the solution he’s working on is best committed as several smaller logical units. Often, these logical units aren’t nicely contained in some module, safely separated from other changes. The units might overlap, modifying different files in the same module, or even modifying different lines in the same file.

Developers can employ various work methodologies to keep these logical changes organized. Some use separate working copies of the same repository to hold each individual change in progress. Others might choose to create short-lived feature branches in the repository and use a single working copy that is constantly switched to point to one such branch or another. Still others use diff and patch tools to back up and restore uncommitted changes to and from patch files associated with each change. Each of these methods has its pros and cons, and to a large degree, the details of the changes being made heavily influence the methodology used to distinguish them.

Subversion 1.5 brings a new changelists feature that adds yet another method to the mix. Changelists are basically arbitrary ...

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