Tisza Gergő wrote:
I tried to suggest that a few weeks ago, but couldn't create much interest: http://www.nabble.com/Live-SVN-branch-td23636464.html
If done properly, it would be probably more difficult than a simple copy of a certain version, but it would also be much more useful. For example, Tim updated SpecialUserrights.php to r52116 just a few minutes ago to fix a bug which stopped it from working, but you wouldn't know that from looking at Special:Version.
It can't be that hard to setup a method to clone so. Supposing that internally it's just a couple of vars referring to the revisions for core and extensions, they could be exposed on noc.
How's that really done at Wikimedia? Do devs manually svn up the folders/files they want? Is that also versioned (for live hacks)? I know that some internal files are stored in bazaar, but know nothing about how scap internals. :)