[Checkins] SVN: CMF/branches/2.0/RELEASE.txt - add a note about
handling SVN Externals when doing a release
Jens Vagelpohl
jens at dataflake.org
Sat Apr 8 06:38:00 EDT 2006
Log message for revision 66660:
- add a note about handling SVN Externals when doing a release
Changed:
U CMF/branches/2.0/RELEASE.txt
-=-
Modified: CMF/branches/2.0/RELEASE.txt
===================================================================
--- CMF/branches/2.0/RELEASE.txt 2006-04-08 02:24:24 UTC (rev 66659)
+++ CMF/branches/2.0/RELEASE.txt 2006-04-08 10:37:59 UTC (rev 66660)
@@ -55,7 +55,13 @@
- Create the Subversion tag by svn copying the head of the release
branch to the tag in the tags repository directory.
+ - Even though checking into a tag is an insidious thing to do, it is
+ OK for changing SVN Externals definitions. Specifically, a CMF
+ release tag should not contain SVN Externals pointing to branches.
+ If needed, a tag on the external package should be cut and then
+ the external definition adjusted to point to the tag.
+
**Creating and publishing the release**
Now that the Subversion repository is prepared the files need to be put onto
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