Re: FW: [cciug] Branching Strategy Question

From: Christian Goetze (cg@digisle.net)
Date: Mon Jul 30 2001 - 11:58:04 EDT


On Mon, 30 Jul 2001, Danny Thomson wrote:

> Could you expand on you item 4, I am one of those developer who
> 'loves' to see branches back on main when tested and co-worker
> reviewed very much from there it officially becomes available to all.
>
> We do not have to support multiple platforms and already release
> versions are supported 'SUPPORT MAIN Branches' based on a lazy
> branching principle.
>
> I would be very interested in why seems against the back to main idea.

It's just that "main" behaves differently from any other branch:

 o It has weird mastership rules
 o Every element has at least one version on main
 o Locking main has unintended consequences
 o You can't rename or obsolete main.

I generally use "main" only for initial imports. In small shops that are
just starting up, I also accept main as an initial delivery branch but
recommend that they create their own as soon as practicable.

--
cg

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