that kinda gels with my feeling on it. Maintaining a branch for a long beta cycle can be painful but maintaining development thru a long beta without branches can be even more so. If there are a bunch of patches coming thru to go against HEAD - ie new features that wouldn't make the release, it becomes very difficult to manage them all while the current release is finalised and there is a big risk of those changes being lost.
Ian
Stefan Bodewig wrote:
On Fri, 21 Nov 2003, Ian MacLean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Maybe I'm missing somthing but I'm not convinced by the 'branches
are bad' argument. Is there some published documentation that says
that this is so ?
Let's say that branches are great if you know enough about CVS are and can deal with them. If you don't, well, they aren't that bad. Just make sure they don't live for too long.
The major problem is merging changes from one branch to another. If a branch is only short lived, this is no big deal.
Stefan do you know what the Ant/Apache policy on this is ?
There is no Apache policy. Different projects are doing very different things.
The process for Ant is essentially to create a branch with the first beta. Development for the release happen on the branch, new development goes on on the main branch. It works, but the longer the beta period the more pain is involved.
For more details on Ant's process, see <http://cvs.apache.org/viewcvs/ant/ReleaseInstructions?rev=HEAD>.
Stefan
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