thoughts about branches

[Henning Glawe]

On Tue, Oct 18, 2005 at 12:33:37AM +0200, Thomas Lange wrote:
> I was very supprised when I say the first people branch only for a
> single bug. I thought people branches are made mainly for new features
> or maybe also for bigger bug fixes. But maybe I'm wrong. Should we
> really want to create a branch for every single small bug?

well, creating branches for each and every patch is the recommended way to
circumvent svn's inability to do cherrypicking:

branch_from_trunk();
modify_the_branch(); 
while (! branch_merged_into_trunk) {
  merge_trunk_into_branch();
  sleep(rand(\infty)); }


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henning