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[Maris Fogels <maris.fogels@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Max Bowsher wrote:
> Maris Fogels wrote:
> > I must often run 'rocketfuel-get', 'link-external-sourcecode', 'make',
> > and 'make schema' to create a branch, and that means five to ten more
> > minutes of waiting to start work on the actual problem.  (Unfortunately
> > I can not time those steps right now: perhaps someone else could?)
>
> Why are rocketfuel-get and 'make schema' part of your branch creation
> process? Surely those are more "things that need doing every so often"
> rather than "things that need doing to start a new branch".

My work often involves reviewing and running other people's branches.  Those branches drift away from trunk, so most of the time I must run 'make schema' to downgrade the database revision and run their branch.  I then have to run 'make schema' again when I switch back to my original work.

I create new Launchpad project branchs every few days.   I do not know how much my local copy of trunk has drifted (could be hours, could be weeks) so running rocketfuel-get is necessary.  This means my database schema could be weeks old as well, so I must run 'make schema' yet again.

How often you run rocketfuel-get and 'make schema' depends on how closely your work tracks mainline.  My work does not track mainline, so I must suffer these commands time and time again.

I can put 'rocketfuel-get && make clean && make' into a cron script, pulled every night.  That would help some.  Fixing 'make schema' is more difficult and annoying.  Perhaps per-branch database instances would work.


Maris

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