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Re: Late Branching

From: Blair Zajac <blair_at_orcaware.com>
Date: Wed, 03 Dec 2008 14:47:23 -0800

Tyler wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 03, 2008 at 12:49:33PM -0800, Gilad Benjamini wrote:
>> For a new feature I am writing, I added some code in our trunk, including
>> adding new directories, a small number of new files, and minor modifications
>> in existing files.
>>
>> A recent decision concluded that this feature should not be included in the
>> trunk, but is expected to be part of the trunk in a few months.
>>
>> Meanwhile, I want to continue working on this feature in a separate branch.
>
> I would back ("reverse merge") your changes out of the trunk, cut a new
> branch, then merge your changes original into that branch.

Better yet would be to copy the branch from the trunk at HEAD (before reverse
merging) then do only a single reverse merge of the commits that shouldn't be in
trunk. No need to merge the changes into the branch.

Blair

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