Question

In twiki/tags/TWikiRelease04x00x05/data/TWiki topics appear as both .txt and .txt,v. Also, topics from plugins (eg: CommentPlugin.txt) also appear. So here we have generated (.txt,v) files and duplicate (from twikiplugins) files in the data/TWiki directory. Lets call this 'impure'.

In twiki/trunk/MAIN/data/TWiki only the '.txt' appears, and no plugin topics appear. This seems like a 'pure' directory where a files appears only once, and twikiplugins files are not copied to data/TWiki (as in TWikiRelease04x00x05).

TWikiRelease04x00x04 is pure, TWikiRelease04x00x03 is impure. I did not check further back.

Since there is an inconsistency in approach I was wondering if this is intentional and what you approach is in the future?

I have an interest because the 'pure' versions are usefull to me. So after exporting TWikiRelease04x00x05 I will manually delete the .txt,v files and the duplicate topics in data/TWiki (Main too) that were copied from twikiplugins.

I want to load 'pure' releases into my subversion repository. Then (among other things) I can compare changes between versions.

Thanks for any comments on this.

MF

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-- TWikiGuest - 09 Dec 2006

Answer

If you answer a question - or someone answered one of your questions - please remember to edit the page and set the status to answered. The status selector is below the edit box.

The release tags actually track the contents of the zip/tgz files that are released. The ,v files are generated by the build script from the subversion repository, to enable the users to track the changes to released topics over time - This information is also the basis for the function of the upgradeTWiki script, though this needs some love.

-- SvenDowideit - 09 Dec 2006

The reason why TWikiRelease04x00x04 is not "pure" is that I made that release without the build script. It was a quick and dirty security release. For TWikiRelease04x00x05 I also made it pure but discovered that the ,v files were needed for the build script.

Maybe it would be better if we had the data directory with ,v files in a different directory on the tagged releases. It also bugs me that a SVN tag is not a real tag.

-- KennethLavrsen - 10 Dec 2006

MF: You seem to be knowledgeable with SCM. Would you be interested in getting more involved with the TWikiCommunity? Please ReadmeFirst for a start.

-- PeterThoeny - 10 Dec 2006