[ros-users] Developers workflow in ROS repositories

[Jose Luis Rivero]

On 08/29/2011 06:25 PM, Lorenz Mösenlechner wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> normally, people develop in trunk and whenever the code is ready, a
> release is done.
> 
> Normally, related packages are packed together into stacks. When a
> release is done, the stack's version number is increased and the
> current dev-branch (trunk in most cases) is tagged. For instance, when
> the new version 1.3 of stack foo is released, the tag tags/foo-1.3 is
> created. In addition, a branchs named according to the ros distro
> names the release is done against is created,
> e.g. branches/diamondback.
> 

Thanks for the info Lorenz, never heard about that release scripts
before. are there many institution repositories working this way?

The model sounds quite reasonable but we have seen an inconvenience to
manage developing this way:

Every time you make a tag (or a branch) subversion is going to copy the
code in the corresponding directories (branches/ tags/) inside the repo.
This means you will have a repo with duplicates directories for packages
in branches/ trunk/ and tags, right?

Seeing the way rospack finds packages (mostly leaving the filesystem to
decide the order to loop subdirs contained in entries of
ROS_PACKAGE_PATH) if you make something like a roscd, it could make you
to land on branches/ or tags/ instead of desired trunk.

How are you handling this situation?

Thanks a lot.
Kind regards.

-- 
José Luis Rivero <jrivero at iri.upc.edu>
Institut de Robòtica i Informàtica Industrial [CSIC-UPC]
Phone: 93.4015783

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