exactly, thank-you for your explanation.
Greg
On 03-Feb-00 Robbins, Bert wrote:
>
> WLaun,
>
> I don't believe that Greg is against branching in general, I believe that
> his view is that this specific branch is for the wrong reason.
>
> If you desire to have a common set of features across all of your platforms
> for each release of a product then NT should be treated like a just another
> platform rather than a special platform, otherwise, you will have two
> different products.
>
> The real issue here is how the software is engineered rather than platform A
> vs. platform B.
>
> Thanks
> Bert Robbins
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Wolfgang Laun [mailto:Wolfgang.Laun@alcatel.at
> Sent: Thursday, February 03, 2000 12:21 PM
> To: Greg Dickie
> Cc: cciug@Rational.Com
> Subject: Re: [cciug] Branch for NT development
>
>
> Greg Dickie wrote:
>
>> 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.
>
> Would you please be so kind and explain (briefly) why you advise against
> branching? Or do you take this as a port where you burn your bridges, never
> to
> return?
> Thank you,
> -WLaun
>
>>
>>
>> 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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