RE: Understanding branching

> ProjectRoot
> |
> |__Lib-A
> |
> |__Lib-B
>
> Suppose I'm working on a project which (among other things) builds two self-
> contained libraries called Lib-A and Lib-B. Everything is under svn control with
> the layout as shown above (ProjectRoot being the main svn root for the
> project). At some stage I want to create a branch of Lib-B for someone else to
> work on.
>
> I appreciate that if I was to open Windows Explorer, right-click on ProjectRoot
> and create a branch, this would create a new branch of the entire project. But
> suppose I right-clicked on the Lib-B subfolder and created a branch from
> there... what would it give me? Would it just create an independent branch of
> Lib-B? Or would it create a complete new branch of the entire project? Hope
> that makes sense.
>
> John

Sure, you can make a copy of any folder you want. However, you might want to separate lib-b into its own project and link it into your main project and version it independently of the main project.

Can lib-b be tested independently? If not, why not branch the whole project even though work on that branch is limited to lib-b? This way, the dev can merge in changes for the whole project to run integration tests, etc.

BOb

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Received on 2013-03-12 15:09:28 CET