[cvsnt] Re: Branch merging - this seems wrong...

Peter Crowther Peter.Crowther at melandra.com
Tue Jun 6 13:50:24 BST 2006


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> From: Tony Hoyle
> In fact it's difficult 
> to imagine a scenario where there would be multiple ones... if your 
> developers depend on each other they must be on the same branch.  If 
> your developers are working on completely independent code then they 
> might as well be in the same branch as they won't conflict.

Not all institutions deploying a revision control system trust their
developers, and some put a buffer between the developers and HEAD.

Example: the Bodington project.  Several institutions develop on Bod,
often funded by research grants.  The developers don't necessarily have
commit privileges to HEAD, as policy requires that the code is tested
before being merged and that's done by a separate merge team.
Typically, a branch is created for each project, appropriate developers
are granted commit access, and then it's tested and potentially merged
in when they declare it's complete.

		- Peter



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