Branching 1.5

[David Smith]

On Sep 6, 2011, at 6:26 PM, Stephen Holt <sholt at adium.im> wrote:

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> On Sep 6, 2011, at 6:18 PM, Evan Schoenberg, M.D. wrote:
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>> On Sep 6, 2011, at 7:01 PM, David Smith wrote:
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>>> I disagree. The concept of "trunk" focuses testing a lot. I know when
>>> we had a few feature branches going I immediately set up my own branch
>>> that I merged them all to so I could test more than one thing at once.
>> 
>> Branch early, merge early may be a fine approach.  I'm just unclear what advantage branching 1.5 (and, as a result, making trunk 1.6hg) would have at this time.
>> 
>> -Evan
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> 
> +1
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> As for testing, this is why we're trying to set up nightly builds for n-branches. 

Test build *availability* is not the problem with branches. It's that you have to pick which single feature you're going to live on. If people really merge early, ok... but that defeats the stability goal.

    David
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