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RE: alternative to CVS magic branches

From: Bob Archer <Bob.Archer_at_amsi.com>
Date: Thu, 16 Dec 2010 09:18:33 -0500

> in CVSNT there's a feature called magic branches. Basically it
> means that
> if you branch from head (or any other branch) the all the files in
> the
> magic branch will continue to have all changes made in the future
> until
> the point where you change them. So if you have 20 files and you
> change
> only a small number of them you only have to merge changes to the
> files
> you modified, the others always have changes in the trunk.
> Is the only option in Subversion to merge the trunk to the branch
> regulary

Yes, pretty much.

BOb
Received on 2010-12-16 15:19:13 CET

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