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Modeling Project Releng/Branching
Branching
To support both a HEAD and an Rx_y_maintenance branch, you need to branch your cvs repository. This is accomplished easily using Eclipse or commandline CVS.
In Eclipse, select your plugins, then right-click and do Team > Branch...
If you're following the usual convention, you'd do your Eclipse 3.3 compatible work in HEAD and your Eclipse 3.2 work in a maintenance branch. Taking the JET Editor project as an example, you'd do something like this:
- build a 0.7.0 R build. Use type "R" (Release), then set the build alias field on the build page to "0.7.0".
- create a branch called R0_7_maintenance, with root R0_7_0. (You'll create a redundant, but potentially handy tag for your 0.7.0 release.)
- begin doing "R0_7_maintenance | 0.7.1" builds from your build page at /emft/build/?project=jeteditor. Pick Eclipse 3.2 driver from the list (they'll have M or R).
- at the same time, start on your Eclipse 3.3 development, then kick builds using "HEAD | 0.8.0" from the picker on the build page. Select an Eclipse 3.3 driver (they have I or S or R). You can get these from here: http://download.eclipse.org/eclipse/downloads/
NOTE: be sure to copy just the http path to the tar.gz file, without ?file= querystring stuff in it. For example:
- http://download.eclipse.org/eclipse/downloads/drops/S-3.3M2-200609220010/eclipse-SDK-3.3M2-linux-gtk.tar.gz
- http://download.eclipse.org/downloads/drops/I20060926-0935/eclipse-SDK-I20060926-0935-linux-gtk.tar.gz
The recommended list of tags for use with org.eclipse.releng.basebuilder is located here and updated when new tags are added (usually once a miletone).
Problem | Solution |
I chose to build my maintenance branch from the web ui, but the built plugins are coming from HEAD. | Check that your map file of your maintenance branch releng plugin refers to the branched plugin and not to HEAD. |