Thanks to your response.
We already work like that. More I advise tor remove the branch after a merge
so we could easely see which files have changed betwwen two merges.
My question was more to kwnow if anyone else had the same problem and/or
your reactions.
Best regards
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Christian Goetze [SMTP:cg@digisle.net
> Sent: Friday, February 11, 2000 02:43
> To: Burdin Nicolas
> Cc: 'cciug@rational.com'
> Subject: Re: [cciug] Big problems with merge between branches
>
>
> Assuming you are using a config spec of the kind:
>
> element * CHECKEDOUT
> element * .../development_branch/LATEST
> element * /main/LATEST -mkbranch development_branch
>
> (possibly adorned with branch point labels or a -time rule)
>
> Add this to your findmerge query:
>
> -element 'brtype(development_branch)'
>
> This will restrict the search to elements that have actually have a chance
> of being modified, ignoring those that don't even have a branch. This will
> _immensely_ speed up your merges (in my case it was 20min -> 20 sec on
> average).
>
> Also, make sure your developers use new development branches once in a
> while, so that the number of elements that have a branch stays small.
> --
> cg
>
> On Thu, 10 Feb 2000, Burdin Nicolas wrote:
>
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > In our team, we use one branch by development (so at least one by
> > developer). We use merge to the branch main to delivery the SW, and some
> > labels to reference the global state. Everything is perfect.
> > But, recently, someone said to me that they had a lot of problems with
> this
> > way of works (because of the merge, big lack of performances...).
> Someone
> > from Rational had come to see the problem and had advised against the
> merge
> > and the usage of the branch !
> > I'm not sure, but during these problems, the release of Clearcase was
> V2.
> >
> > 1 - Could it explain these problems and this advice of Rational ?
> >
> > 2 - Does anybody have the same problems with V3 (or V4) ?
> >
> > All your opinions are welcome.
> >
> > Best Regards
> >
> > Nicolas Burdin <burdinn@thmulti.com>
> > Thomson Multimedia
> > France
> >
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