Hugh Sasse Staff Elec Eng wrote: > The book "Open Source Development with CVS" says that you should > keep few branches active at any one time. I'm wondering if there > are penalties (apart from storage costs) when many contributors > create their own branches? The biggest penalty is managing the complexity - each branch you add means one more branch to which you may have to merge your changes. Failing to merge changes into a branch could result in lost time, confusion, etc. More branches also means more to keep track of and to manage.
-- Jim Hyslop Senior Software Designer Leitch Technology International Inc. (http://www.leitch.com) Columnist, C/C++ Users Journal (http://www.cuj.com/experts) _______________________________________________ Info-cvs mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-cvs
