Hello fellow developers,

I'm wondering what is Best Practice to "tag" a bunch of patches stored in some
VCS like [1], which are bundled into one single version of a patchset-tarball.

My current usecase is:
mico-2.3.13-r4[2] uses version 0.1 for the set of patches[3].

While I have to add a new patch into [3] (and bump to patchset-0.2),
I still want to be able to recreate the patchset-0.1 content from VCS
if necessary.

My idea was to set a CVS-Tag on [3] for what is in each patchset version, but
as I don't see /any/ (according to ViewVC) CVS-Tag on [1], I'm unsure...

So what are your workflows here?

Thank you!

[1] http://sources.gentoo.org/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/gentoo/src/patchsets/
[2] http://sources.gentoo.org/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/gentoo-x86/net-misc/mico/mico-2.3.13-r4.ebuild?revision=1.1&view=markup
[3] http://sources.gentoo.org/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/gentoo/src/patchsets/mico/2.3.13/

/haubi/
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Michael Haubenwallner
Gentoo on a different level

Il giorno mer, 25/05/2011 alle 15.34 +0200, Michael Haubenwallner ha
scritto:
>
> My idea was to set a CVS-Tag on [3] for what is in each patchset
> version, but
> as I don't see /any/ (according to ViewVC) CVS-Tag on [1], I'm
> unsure...

Tags are usually applied per-directory rather than on the whole
repository, you can find tags for instance on

http://sources.gentoo.org/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/gentoo/src/patchsets/xine-lib/1.1.3_pre20060831/

For git-based projects (and I don't know if mico is), I have a
preference to store a git tag with the patches applied over it, as I
described on my blog:

http://blog.flameeyes.eu/2010/09/07/maintaining-backports-with-git

HTH!

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Diego Elio Pettenò — Flameeyes
http://blog.flameeyes.eu/

On 05/25/2011 03:40 PM, Diego Elio Pettenò wrote:
> Il giorno mer, 25/05/2011 alle 15.34 +0200, Michael Haubenwallner ha
> scritto:
>>
>> My idea was to set a CVS-Tag on [3] for what is in each patchset
>> version, but
>> as I don't see /any/ (according to ViewVC) CVS-Tag on [1], I'm
>> unsure...
>
> Tags are usually applied per-directory rather than on the whole
> repository, you can find tags for instance on
>
> http://sources.gentoo.org/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/gentoo/src/patchsets/xine-lib/1.1.3_pre20060831/

So I indeed just failed to find the tags - ok then.

> For git-based projects (and I don't know if mico is),

It is darcs based...

> I have a
> preference to store a git tag with the patches applied over it, as I
> described on my blog:
>
> http://blog.flameeyes.eu/2010/09/07/maintaining-backports-with-git

Thank you!
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Michael Haubenwallner
Gentoo on a different level