RE: Live branching

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Chris Rodgers [mailto:christopher.rodgers_at_cardiov.ox.ac.uk]
> Sent: Wednesday, August 13, 2008 11:25 AM
> To: users_at_subversion.tigris.org
> Subject: Live branching
>
> Hi,
>
> Is it possible to make a branch where all but a few files continue to
> follow the trunk?
>
> This would be very similar to using "svn switch" in a working copy,
but
> would allow one to check out the particular combination of trunk files
> and modified ones onto several machines.
>
> I was thinking of using this for configuration files in the midst of a
> bulk of code that remains the same on each machine.

Sounds like you're referring to something like ClearCase's lazy
branching (a branch is created when a file/dir element is checked out.)
Subversion branching is done up front. Which means you will have to
rely on merging to get trunk changes once you branch.

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Received on 2008-08-13 21:52:35 CEST