Re: Is this feasible: Trunk files that update branches also

[Matt Riechers]

Tobias Frech wrote:
> 
> As we have different releases of the software we
> would like to "split" the manual in different versions. The easy way
> would be to branch and tag the whole stuff and have a totally separate
> branch from the main trunk.

This problem sounds a lot like software that supports multiple platforms...

Perhaps you could ignore branches (and solving the problem by using CVS) all
together. Instead, a subdirectory somewhere in the tree (where it makes sense)
would hold the data unique to each release. For example:

        /project
        /etc
                /rel-foo-specific
                /rel-bar-specific
        /html
                /rel-foo-specific
                /rel-bar-specific

or you could reverse the layout and make the release-specific directories the
top-level, with etc and html replicated underneath as needed. Either way, you
would handle the release combinations in the build system.

-Matt