On Mar 28, 2006, at 1:16 PM, Matt England wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have what I call a "best practice" question:
>
> When is it necessary (or at least useful) to branch?
>
> Here's my current answers (or at least how my group has been
> operating thus far):
>
> 1) When one needs to do "side"/private development in a way that
> breaks the day-to-day builds of the trunk.
>
> 2) When one needs to make bug fixes of an old revision/tag of the
> repo (possibly by back-merging fixes/features in a future revision)
> without inheriting all the new stuff in the trunk.
>
> Is this a comprehensive and concise list?
I'd say that it covers the majority of common branching use cases,
but I wouldn't say it's comprehensive.
>
> I realize this is a rather broad question (and possibly a faq
> somewhere), but I'm rather short on research time at the moment, so
> I seek guidance from the community.
I talk about branching in chapters 5, 9, and 12 of my book. I think
you'd find a lot of info along the lines of what you're looking for
in there: http://www.williamnagel.net/svn.php
-Bill
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