On Wed, December 19, 2007 2:40 pm, David Brown wrote: > On Wed, Dec 19, 2007 at 02:07:51PM -0800, Lan Barnes wrote: > >>Matt can help me with this, but since p4 is a "branch on checkout" model, >>it really isn't that hard to create a new branch. You simply integrate >>your changed file to the new branch, which creates it and retains >> history. > > P4 doesn't exactly have branches. It allows you to 'integrate' changes > into a different tree in the repo, and remembers the association between > them. The integration has to be done as its own discrete step. >
I thought that's what I just said. > I think it would be better to describe it as: P4 doesn't have branches, > but > it can track merges between trees which can be used to simulate some of > the behavior of branches. > M R branches in every sense of the word. Having history is a feature. -- Lan Barnes SCM Analyst Linux Guy Tcl/Tk Enthusiast Biodiesel Brewer -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
