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RE: [Fwd: Re: Branches? How many?]

From: Vandenbroucke Sander <Sander.Vandenbroucke_at_vandewiele.com>
Date: 2007-05-10 11:24:17 CEST

> > Hi,
> >
> > We are working with SVN for a couple of months now but we're not
quite
> > on top of it.
> > What we struggle with most is a good branch policy. Now we have each
a
> > branch in which we do our daily development for new features as well
as
> > for bug fixes. When things are tested they get merged into trunk.
This
> > leads to many intermediate commits to our branches in order to be
able
> > to merge a small bug fix to trunk without merging any ongoing work
on a
> > new feature.
> >
> > Apart from bug fixes and new features we also have 'test software'.
This
> > is highly experimental software mainly to be able to trace and
diagnose
> > bugs. Most of these tests get obsolete once the bug is fixed. Some
stay
> > alive.
> >
> > Any ideas on how to handle this situation?
> >
> > Sander.
> >
> >
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> Why the need for every developer to have a separate branch? Let all
work
It is mainly for the sake of backup. Once committed it is backup-ed.
Otherwise there is a risk of loosing a great deal of work when a
developers pc crashes.

> on the trunk and just use branch for releases and experimentell stuff.
> After all having more than one developer work on the same code base is
> what subversion is all about. If you need greater controll use a
checkin
> checkout model.
>
What is this model?

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