Re: The essential problems of moving from CVS

[Thomas Adam <thomas.adam22%gmail.com@localhost>]

On Sat, Jan 16, 2010 at 08:32:12PM +0000, David Holland wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 16, 2010 at 02:19:32PM +0000, Thomas Adam wrote:
>  > > The branch maintenance one is huge because we spend a lot of effort on
>  > > dealing with merging things between branches in release engineering.
>  > 
>  > This is more effectively solved by having a clearly-defined workflow about
>  > public branches, their use, and how they're managed/integrated with other
>  > branches potentially.  If you get this right, and commiters appreciate what
>  > each branch's role is for, it makes things easy.
> 
> We already have that, and git isn't going to change it much. Applying
> changesets to a release branch is not markedly different anywhere, and
> as far as I know neither git nor any other readily available SCM tool
> has the ability to manage the recordkeeping that currently has to be
> done separately. Maybe in the long run some extensions can be written
> for that, maybe not.

What kind of recordkeeping?

-- Thomas Adam

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