Re: Feature branch merging by trunk replacement question...

K. Richard Pixley wrote:
> [a bunch of branching scenarios]
>
> Aside from the fact that it requires some bookkeeping, (already required
> for merging anyway), and the fact that this approach completely
> eliminates the need for one merge, does anyone see any problems with
> this approach?

   Only the slight race condition between when you last merge from the
   trunk to when you delete trunk and replace it with your branch.

   There is a slight chance that more changes could be made to the
   trunk, which you promtly delete, and they never get merged. You
   can of course mitigate this by being careful. However, if you
   always merge, there is no risk of losing changes, but your merge
   might not be trivial.

   And natrually, because it's subversion and you never really lose
   anything, if you find out later that some changes from trunk
   were not merged before the replacement, you can always merge them
   into the current trunk.

daniel

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Received on Sat Apr 16 01:57:02 2005