[jboss-dev] New Break the Build Policy - testsuite - discussion

[David M. Lloyd]

On 10/01/2008 10:32 AM, Kabir Khan wrote:
>> On 10/01/2008 05:05 AM, Adrian Brock wrote:
>>> A branch will be created for the broken build
>>> before rolling back so the commit(s) can be fixed
>>> and tested before re-merging.
>>
>> I vote against this, if my vote counts.  Just roll it back, you don't 
>> need a branch.  The original committer can use "svn merge -rXX:YY" to 
>> re-merge the change in their local tree.  We already have an awful lot 
>> of branches as is.
> 
> Or alternatively create the branch somewhere else than under the 
> branches/ folder, e.g.
> https://svn.jboss.org/repos/jbossas/brokenbuilds/whatever

Where the branches will accumulate forever, because nobody has the courage 
to delete old ones when the original breaker forgets.  Besides, you'd just 
end up naming them by revision number anyway.

- DML