[GRASS-dev] GRASS 7 development started

[Markus Neteler]

On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 8:23 AM, Markus Neteler <neteler at osgeo.org> wrote:
> On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 12:56 AM, Hamish <hamish_b at yahoo.com> wrote:
>> Glynn:
>>> Any final comments before the entire source tree is
>>> reformatted?
>>
>> Any thoughts on keeping the inter-branch svn merge effort low?
>
> Proposal:
>
> - apply new indentation to trunk (after figuring out how to keep reasonable
>  _("") macro formatting)
> - then also apply to 6.4.devel_branch
>
> I also wondered how to manage backporting: the only way I see it to also
> fix 6.4.devel_branch. IMHO there are no negative side effects since
> it is *devel*_branch and since backporting to 6.3.svn is done only in
> severe cases.

There is one implication: local, unsubmitted changes must be treated
*first* with then indent command, then svn update can be done.

Markus