Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-buildservice (306 mails)

[Andreas Gruenbacher <agruen@xxxxxxx>]

On Friday 15 January 2010 12:06:18 pm Michael Schroeder wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 11:55:51AM +0100, Michal Marek wrote:
> > Can the _link file now be renamed to _parent or something specific to
> > branches, so that it's possible to branch real source links and submit
> > changes against them?
>
> No, a branch is just a normal link with one patch of type "branch".

Yes? Then I don't understand what what Adrian meant in [1] when saying:

> The new mechanism is doing a full copy of the sources, but still trace the
> origin via a _link file.

What am I misunderstanding?

Thanks,
Andreas

[1] http://news.opensuse.org/2010/01/11/obs-supports-new-branch-and-merge-
handling/
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