[mythtv] SVN Branching

[Adrian Wilkins]

Can I ask, without rudeness, if Isaac considered using a branch to do
the gargantuan overhaul of LiveTV that continues to progress?

It's mostly from the point of view of mild frustration ; there have
been plenty of fixes going in for DVB hardware with less complete
driver support (USB devices in particular), which are relevant to my
situation, but I don't relish the task of working around the potential
minefield that is the LiveTV revamp to test them, and I don't relish
the idea of "foward-merging" DVB changes from a particular revision to
obtain the DVB patches in isolation.

Obviously, this isn't going to happen now, but I was wondering if it
was worth examining the reasons for not doing so and whether it would
have been beneficial to the MythTV project as a whole to keep a
changeset of such magnitude to a development branch. My contention is
that it would have enabled people to continue to use the HEAD revision
of /trunk without suffering almost-certain-breakage and thus
benefitting from the smaller fixes whilst eagerly anticipating the Big
Cahoona.