Re: [DISCUSS] Re: [VOTE] Branching Strategy and SCM

[Alex Harui]

On 8/13/12 4:08 PM, "Om" <bigosma...@gmail.com> wrote:


> A committer is free to decide what is unstable and what is complete.  Fast
> branching gives us the flexibility of sharing unstable features with
> others, while keeping develop and master as stable as possible.  The
> current 'whiteboard' concept is not a real alternative because it forces
> comitters to work on single features at one time.  I will not be able to
> experiment with core Mustella/FlexUnit/UIComponent and work on a new
> component at the same time in my whiteboard.  It causes me to needlessly
> serialize my work.
> 
> Om
SVN doesn't allow you to have more than one branch in your whiteboard?  Most
of these arguments still seem to be about fear of merge-hell in SVN.  Which
is valid, but the logic about when to branch/merge seems to apply to both.

-- 
Alex Harui
Flex SDK Team
Adobe Systems, Inc.
http://blogs.adobe.com/aharui