James Henstridge wrote: > On 08/09/06, Gustavo J. A. M. Carneiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Your master plan implies branching early and heavily committing to >> both branches for a long time. Reality check: we are still using this >> archaic software called C.V.S.! Branching with that software is >> incredibly complex. >> >> Your master plan is blocked by bug #99999999: "migration to >> subversion". > > The real issue with handling development in parallel branches is > really complexity of merging. This is an area where Subversion > doesn't really buy you much over CVS -- you still need to manually > keep track of what you merged to do a repeated merge.
Actually, what would be great is to have a SCM that allows cherry-picking of patches (like git and mercurial I think). This allow to backport useful patches very easily if apply clean changesets. _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
