[asterisk-dev] Removal of svn:externals in Asterisk branches

[Andrew Latham]

On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 12:05 PM, Jason Parker <jparker at digium.com> wrote:
> As part of the research towards potentially moving Asterisk to git (If you
> weren't already aware of this...umm...SURPRISE!), we've come to the conclusion
> that we can no longer use svn:externals.  Keeping a similar setup would be very
> difficult to handle, and would provide zero benefit.
>
> Asterisk branches currently use two svn:externals : menuselect and mxml
> (indirectly, through menuselect).  As of Asterisk 1.8 (where asterisk-addons was
> merged into Asterisk) and DAHDI 2.4 (?), menuselect is used only by Asterisk -
> this makes the path forward pretty obvious.
>
> What we've settled on, at this point, is simply merging menuselect and mxml
> directly into the Asterisk branches (1.8, 10, 11, and trunk).  In theory, no
> code will need to change at all.  The changes will be with subversion properties
> in the merged directories and the way in which changes are merged.  Since they
> will become a part of Asterisk, the merging would be done in exactly the same
> manner that Asterisk merges are done today.
>
>
> I'd like to get several things from the folks on this list.
>
> 1) A review of the plan.  Why might this be a bad idea?  Any unforeseen issues?
> 2) A "review" of the branch.  Does it function as expected?  Do any of your
> scripts now fail?
> 3) Cookies.
>

1. Can we test this in a user or team branch?
2. See number 1
3. Its Betsy's birthday, I am sure there are sweets around...


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