[OpenLayers-Dev] sandbox howto

[Christopher Schmidt]

On Thu, Aug 02, 2007 at 11:20:44AM +0200, Jachym Cepicky wrote:
> Hi developers,
> 
> I tried to ad new feature to OpenLayers and it is in my sandbox now
> (username: jachym).
> 
> I would like to fill the tracker and add the patch. However, I is not
> clear to me, how to create the patch using "svn", only thing, I managed
> is to use "diff -u -x '.svn' openlayers-src jachym's-sandbox" however,
> this does not seem to be the proper way.
> 
> What is the best way of creating patches from sandbox?

http://trac.openlayers.org/wiki/CreatingPatches


> Second question is, which is the best way for keeping my sandbox
> synchronized with trunk version?

When trunk changes, look through svn log --stop-on-copy
local_sandbox_dir for your last trunk merge. (When you start, this
should just be the first revision you see.)

Once you've found that, do: 

svn merge -r $oldrev:HEAD 
http://svn.openlayers.org/trunk/openlayers/ local_sandbox_dir

svn ci -m "Merging from $oldrev to HEAD" local_sandbox_dir 

Then you should be up to date.

(Note that you should replace oldrev with an actual number in both
cases.)

Regards,
-- 
Christopher Schmidt
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