Dingo and PerForce

Bosko Milekic bmilekic at technokratis.com
Sun Dec 19 09:32:30 PST 2004


This way he can push changes back into 'dingo' before pushing them back
into HEAD.  It makes a lot of sense, actually, to do this sort of 3-tier
approach when multiple people are working on different parts of a larger
sub-project, like for example dingo.

HEAD (top, must work) <-- (dingo, pre-production, test all changes
    together) <-- (your individual branch, single set of changes).

You develop in your individual branch, test your changes.  If all is
well, you push into dingo, where changes get tested with respect to
other dingo-related changes (which have not yet been pushed into HEAD).
When it's all ready, everything gets pushed at once into HEAD, or in
pieces, but you know that the individual pieces work well together.
This is because dingo changes less often than HEAD.

-Bosko

On Sun, Dec 19, 2004 at 06:20:17PM +0100, Max Laier wrote:
> On Sunday 19 December 2004 05:23, gnn at FreeBSD.org wrote:
> > 	For those who use PerForce and want to work on Dingo there is
> > 	now a dingo branch, named "dingo".  The dingo branch contains
> > 	all of src, not just sys, as I suspect there are userland bits
> > 	we'll want to do.  I know I'll be doing userland things.
> > 	Please make your own sub-branch off of dingo.  For example,
> > 	here is mine (gnn_dingo):
> <...>
> > The main branch (dingo) is locked against changes and, more
> > importantly, accidental deletion.  Let me know if there are any issues
> > with any of this.
> >
> > Oh, and the integration from vendor to dingo was done last Saturday
> > night around 23:00 JST.
> 
> I am not all that familiar with perforce so I am wondering: What is the 
> benefit of having this branch if it will be tracking HEAD anyway, we can just 
> branch off the normal vendor branch. Or do you plan to integrate parts back?
> 
> I have 'mlaier_carp2' off the vendor branch. What will be the benefit if I 
> move it to 'dingo' instead?
> 
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