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sp7_to_sp13_subversion_branching_merging

This just logs the stuff i had to do to support a branch of our code based on sap SP7 while the trunk was moved to SP13, so we could maintain the SP7 code, while we complete the upgrade of our infrastructure to SP13.

It was decided the trunk would get the upgrade since it is the most changes, while the branch would keep the old version(SP7) and whatever fixes we need to do before we complete the upgrade.
Also the fixes/features we add in SP7 will be merged into SP13 as we go along.

creating branch

CREATED a new branch dir in svn: http://our.svn.server/svn/branches/sp7/ (using rapidsvn)

Then we copied the current code to the branch.

because some code already changed in the trunk since i created my "upgrade" projects, i had to go the revision i use for those projects.

# those haven't changed, so copy current revision into branch
svn copy http://our.svn.server/svn/apps_b2b_pcf http://our.svn.server/svn/branches/sp7/apps_b2b_pcf
svn copy http://our.svn.server/svn/apps_b2c_sealy http://our.svn.server/svn/branches/sp7/apps_b2c_sealy

# those changed, so i need to get the revision i based the upgrade on
svn copy -r 1440 http://our.svn.server/svn/b2b_pcf http://our.svn.server/svn/branches/sp7/b2b_pcf
svn copy -r 1411 http://our.svn.server/svn/b2c_sealy http://our.svn.server/svn/branches/sp7/b2c_sealy
svn copy -r 1425 http://our.svn.server/svn/pcf_java/ http://our.svn.server/svn/branches/sp7/pcf_java

# those should be based on head(unchanged), but i accidentally committed the upgraded version to the trunk before creating the branch, so i need to go back to the right revision.
svn copy -r 422 http://our.svn.server/svn/b2b_vanilla http://our.svn.server/svn/branches/sp7/b2b_vanilla
svn copy -r 979 http://our.svn.server/svn/sap_crm_java http://our.svn.server/svn/branches/sp7/sap_crm_java
svn copy -r 976 http://our.svn.server/svn/sap_crm_libs http://our.svn.server/svn/branches/sp7/sap_crm_libs
svn copy -r 157 http://our.svn.server/svn/vanilla_b2c http://our.svn.server/svn/branches/sp7/vanilla_b2c

Merging changed code (during upgrade) back into branch

Since some code has changed in the trunk already after the revisions i based the branch on(was suppose to be code-freeze), i have to do the xtra step to merge the trunk changes to the branch

this is an odd case, usually you merge the branch changes to the trunk, not the other way around like here.

Process: checked out the branch in a temp folder and merge diff from trunk into the branch for projects that need it: pcf_java,b2b_pcf

mkdir /tmp/svn
cd /tmp/svn/
svn checkout http://our.svn.server/svn/apps_b2b_pcfb2b_pcf
svn checkout http://our.svn.server/svn/b2c_sealy
#svn checkout http://our.svn.server/svn/pcf_java
cd b2c_sealy
# we merge the diff between the revision we branched at and the current version of trunk
# first do a dry run to just make sure it looks ok
svn merge --dry-run -r 1411:1458 http://our.svn.server/svn/b2c_sealy
# then do it
svn merge -r 1411:1458 http://our.svn.server/svn/b2c_sealy
# save the patched branch (commit)
svn commit

#then we do the same for the other project 
cd ../b2b_pcf
svn merge --dry-run -r 1440:1456 http://our.svn.server/svn/b2b_pcf
svn merge ---r 1440:1456 http://our.svn.server/svn/b2b_pcf
svn commit

revisions after commit of upgraded code to trunk

Here are the revisions i ended up with after all this:

trunk:
b2b_pcf: 1470
b2c_sealy: 1473
pcf_java: 1474

branch:
b2b_pcf: 1463
b2c_sealy: 1462
pcf_java: 1451

At this point the branch and trunk are ready for use (end of code freeze)

Build server

We use a build server(hudson) for our release, in the short term we want it to use the branch, so we made that changed on hudson.

Post Upgrade

We now have fully completed the upgrade and will stop using the branch and now work mainly on the trunk (upgraded code).

First we need to merge all the upgrade/fixes we made on the branch back into the trunk.

On my developer station i switched all projects back to the trunk (after committing whatever was not to the branch.).
Then i go in my projects root and do the merge
Run the commands first with --dry-run to see what will happen

merging branch changes back into trunk

Note: 1500 is the revision on which the branch was originally made. 1558 is the current version of the branch.
svn merge http://our.svn.server/svn/branches/sp7/b2c_sealy@1500 http://our.svn.server/svn/branches/sp7/b2c_sealy@1558 b2c_sealy
svn merge http://our.svn.server/svn/branches/sp7/b2b_pcf@1499 http://our.svn.server/svn/branches/sp7/b2b_pcf@1555 b2b_pcf
svn merge http://our.svn.server/svn/branches/sp7/pcf_java@1488 http://our.svn.server/svn/branches/sp7/pcf_java@1559pcf_java

Now the merged code needs to be reviewed, and possibly conflict fixes.
When all good, then commit all the merged projects to complete the merge.

switch all developers back to trunk

build server: switched back to build from trunk rather than the branch.

Last modified: Mon Mar 24 12:19:27 EDT 2008 by

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