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Best practices question

From: Jonathan Wallace <jonathan.wallace_at_gmail.com>
Date: 2006-09-21 14:46:30 CEST

Hello,
 I have a question concerning best practices. I have a set of files and
folders that make up a software program, let us call it program A, in
URL/trunk. The main "executable" is a microsoft .mdb file which must be
treated as binary and should only be edited by one person at any time as
merges are impossible[0] on binary files. There is also a program B that
shares a subset of the files in A including the main executable. For the
subset of files and folders shared between A and B, I'd like to insure that
there is only one copy of those files in the repository.

My first thought was to make B a branch of A but then if someone
accidentally commits the main executable in a checked out copy of B, then I
now have two copies. Obviously, one can merge this B executable back into
the main trunk but this doesn't solve the underlying problem. I appreciate
any and all suggestions.

0. If anyone knows that my assumption about merging source code in mdb files
is incorrect, I'd love to know.

-- 
Jonathan Wallace
Received on Thu Sep 21 14:47:08 2006

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