> Date: Thu, 26 Nov 2009 10:12:55 -0600
> Subject: Re: Keeping common files in trunk and branch identical
> From: lesmikesell_at_gmail.com
> To: gaffe_1_at_live.com
>
> On Thu, Nov 26, 2009 at 8:10 AM, Asbjørrn Sæbø wrote:
>> I would like to have a branch for a different variant of our software.
>> In the branch, some of the files will be changed. The other files I
>> would like to keep identical between trunk and the branch. That is,
>> I would like to avoid the parallel maintenance of the same file in
>> the trunk and the branch. [...]
> If you know ahead of time which parts are likely to be kept common
> among all versions, the best approach might be to split them into
> libraries that are maintained separately and referenced as externals
> be all versions that use them.
That is certainly a possibility. The problem with it is that keeping
it fine grained enough creates quite some overhead, I think. Basically
I want to do this on a file level.
Asbjørn Sæbø
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