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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Brett Stahlman [mailto:smoochpappy_at_gmail.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, March 17, 2009 2:46 PM
> To: Erik Hemdal
> Subject: Re: Troubled by a strategy that has developers
. . . .
> It seems to me that the code would be traceable to the
> preceding release with either approach. The bigger issue to
> me is the ugliness of the merges.
>
Yes, it would. I was thinking about the case where code gets imported from
somewhere, which is a problem I've had to deal with in the past. That's not
the same thing as starting from somewhere like a tag.
The nastier issue is the merge, because you are kind of deliberately not
letting SVN merge tracking help you out. And you don't get full value from
developer testing if they are not taking changes from trunk into account. I
think you are correct on all those points.
> > If there is a hard business requirement for the proposed plan, then
> > you won't be able to adopt the "Subversion Way". But the
> stated need
> > might not be the real need. There might be other needs that no one
> > has thought of. The proposed solution might not be the only one.
>
> I'm pretty sure no such business case exists. As you may have
> been pointing out above, however, the Subversion model does
> provide traceability to the preceding release, regardless of
> whether developers create their branches from the latest
> release or the trunk.
There may be some other reason then. Maybe members of the team have been
burned by merge and build problems in the past or by the series of
annoyances that David mentioned. But there's some reason -- valid or
invalid -- why people are suggesting the model. Try to understand that
point of view. Whatever the result, I think that a solution that everyone
embraces is the one you want. Just be ready to make adjustments based on
experience.
>
>. . . .
> >
> > Good luck, and I hope this helps.
>
> Thanks. I appreciate your response.
> Brett Stahlman
>
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