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Re: Repository layout

From: Jeff Smith <jsmith_at_robotronics.com>
Date: 2007-02-08 20:10:52 CET

On Wednesday 07 February 2007 16:16, James Oltmans wrote:
> We're going to have multiple project teams working on various bugs
> in various states of funding and completion. The final product is
> supposed to be kept in near pristine condition at all times. I
> don't think we can manage this by just allowing everyone to commit
> to the trunk and tag releases for testing purposes. I think each
> project might need its own branch where the users can work without
> being getting tripped up by other projects. Then when the project's
> done merge the latest from the trunk to the project branch and test
> a build off of there until it's approved for being merged into the
> trunk (this would basically be a strategy to make each project a
> single pre-tested commit to the trunk).

Good start, except be careful about "two-way merging". In other words
if a team has merged trunk changes to their branch, later they would
not want to merge the same changes back to the trunk or the change
would conflict with itself.

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