Re: Subversion and RPG source change management

[Nathan Andelin <nandelin@xxxxxxxxx>]

Gang,

I have begun to focus somewhat on IBM i check-out & check-in procedures, and have come up with the following table layouts to support those operations:

http://www.radile.com/rdweb/temp/svn_data.txt

The first four tables are simply basic configuration.  The fifth table tracks each file member's current status/state.  Finally, the sixth table is for recording check-out and check-in history, for each file member.

The idea of querying & maintaining database tables to support these operations may have been an evolutionary one for some of us; it certainly was for me.  It stems from the idea that the IBM i library-file system may be something of a stand-alone peer in a distributed version control operation, where some operations impact the the local files independently of Subversion. But may be synchronized at a later time (perhaps nightly), with a Subversion repository.

Any thoughts?

-Nathan.