Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-buildservice (306 mails)

[Dave Plater <dplater@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 01/15/2010 01:39 PM, Michael Schroeder wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 12:14:29PM +0100, Andreas Gruenbacher wrote:
>   
> > 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?
> >     
> Nothing. A link of type branch is a full copy of the source with
> a _link file containing one patch element of type "branch".
>
> M.
>
>   
Therefore a branch link is different to a normal package link and should
have a different name, is this correct?
Dave P
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