On 2016-06-10 14:31, Fernando D. Bozzo wrote:
The IDE integration something comfortable, but normally this kind of
use is
for the legacy way of working with SCM tools like VSS.
If you want to get the best of a DVCS tool for working with a team and
use
the more modern "branch by task", like git does, then you need to
forget
about the integration because you are going to switch between branches,
and
believe me, once you start working this way, you don't want to go back.
An common example of this "branch per task" is a bug fix:
- You are working on the "main/new-feature-A" branch, and you get
notified
that there is an error in production that must be fixed quickly
- You check-in your changes to a personal sub-branch to continue later
then
create a branch named "main/hotfix-B" and do the code fixing. Once you
get
it working, you integrate your code in /main and reintegrate the same
fix
in your previous work-branch "main/new-feature-A", so you have the
latest
fix
- Finally, /main goes to production again, containing only the fix and
you
change again to your work-branch "main/new-feature-A" to continue with
your
feature for the next release
This is a simple case, but as you can see, this is something not doable
with the legacy integration mode of working. At least not without some
option that allows you to switch branches.
The importance of "visualizing" the branches in the SCM/DVCS tool is
because you need to get "a picture" of where are you and what are you
going
to do with the code. It's not more a "checkin" and forget.
Excellent example...thanks!
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