My 2 cents. Do not do this. Branching for a platform port is bad and merging is
almost impossible. It might be painful but try to stay in the same branch.
Greg
On 03-Feb-00 John Lawlor wrote:
>
> Hi All,
>
> We are in the early stages of ClearCase and don't really use branches until
> now.
>
> One of the development groups wants to create a branch for doing NT
> development work only and then merge it back in a few weeks (another story).
> The development group each use their own views.
>
> What is the best way to manage this branch?. All I have come up with so far
> is,
> 1. Declare a branch type 'nt_development'
> 2. Do a Cleartool mkbranch nt_development.
>
> These raise a few questions,
> Can I branch the whole project or can I only do one file at a time?
> If I get the developers to setup the views with these rules:
> element * CHECKEDOUT
> element * /main/nt_development/LATEST
> element * /MAIN/1 -mkbranch nt_development
> that will branch each file version onto this branch, but will I have to
> merge the files back in 1 by 1?
>
> What is the best/smoothest way to get through this?
>
> All ideas are very very welcome.
>
> Regards,
>
> John.
>
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