NAME

Shipwright::Manual::UsingBranches - Using Branches

DESCRIPTION

Shipwright branches is a method to keep multiple sources for one dist, a bit like branches in vcs. technically, all the sources for foo live below sources/foo/.

dists from CPAN can't be branched, or in the other way, can only have one branch. technically, only dists occurred in shipwright/source.yml can be branched.

Imagine we have an app Foo, of which the layout in vcs is like: trunk/... branches/1.0/... branches/2.0/...

with branches support, we can add all the 3 versions in shipwright:

    $ shipwright import -r ... svn:.../trunk --name Foo --as trunk
    $ shipwright import -r ... svn:.../branches/1.0 --name Foo --as branches/1.0
    $ shipwright import -r ... svn:.../branches/2.0 --name Foo --as branches/2.0

the branch names can be whatever you want, no need to be the same layout as your vcs system now we have trunk, 1.0 and 2.0 branches in shipwright:

    $ shipwright list -r ... Foo

will show "branches: trunk, branches/1.0, branches/2.0"

when build, the 1st one will be treated as the default branch. to change the default branch, e.g. we want to change 2.0 as the default:

    $ shipwright defaultbranch -r ... Foo branches/2.0

if we don't want to change the default branch, we can also supply --branch arg when build:

    $ ./bin/shipwright-builder --branches Foo=branches/2.0

Note:

since all these branches share the same build script and the same dep dists, if branches are way too different, it's better to create another vessel source instead of branching.

AUTHORS

sunnavy <sunnavy@bestpractical.com>

LICENCE AND COPYRIGHT

Shipwright is Copyright 2007-2009 Best Practical Solutions, LLC.

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.