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Re: Making branches and typical patterns

From: Russ Freeman <russ.freeman_at_ergnosis.com>
Date: 2003-04-09 15:03:02 CEST

> Generally, in the repository we always branch the whole project,
> because it doesn't cost any more than branching just a subdir, and you
> never know when your changes will creep out of the subdir you started
> them in.

Yes, too true.

>
> But in the working copy, we just `switch' over whatever subdir we need
> while we work, so we continue to get trunk changes in other
> directories when we update.

OK, so let me get this straight, you typically have a single working folder
area. After branching, this working area is pointing to your new branch.
You then switch *back* some of the local projects to the trunk (or is it the
other way around?).

Cheers
Russ

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