RE: Some observations while branching and merging...

> My only observation is that each revision should be a logically
> distinct operation, but in step 6, you committed a revision that does
> two logically distinct operations: you created a branch, and you made
> a change to it by adding a file. Instead, you should create the
> branch from the trunk in one revision, and then in the next revision
> you can make changes to it if you like. By combining these two
> operations in one revision you make it hard to properly merge changes
> from that branch to elsewhere.

Right, I did wonder about that.

Round 3, however, has the branching as a distinct operation and is the scenario that puzzles us the most. Are we doing something incorrectly?

Thanks!

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Olivier Dagenais
Software Engineering / Génie logiciel
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Received on Tue May 8 14:38:42 2007