Re: Code Reverting Itself

2012-09-25 Thread Thorsten Schöning
Guten Tag Kenny Raghunath, am Dienstag, 25. September 2012 um 22:21 schrieben Sie: > Anyone have any suggestions on what I can do to fix this? It's really unlikely Subversion itself is the problem, it surely has something to do with your deployment, working copies, merge strategies or something l

Code Reverting Itself

2012-09-25 Thread Kenny Raghunath
Hello, I'm having these strange issues when moving my code onto my production environment. I start out by doing my PHP code within the trunk. When I'm done, I merge my changes into a release branch and then deploy it via Beanstalkapp to my staging environment. When I'm sure that the code is in wor

Re: Branching best practice advice for an inherently complex environment

2012-09-25 Thread Les Mikesell
On Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 6:39 AM, Phil Pinkerton wrote: > Looking for convincing guidelines to change some rather poor practices > > Scenario : Project has multiple branches with frequent changes by several > different developers, merging back to trunk is infrequent and when done merge > results

Re: Branching best practice advice for an inherently complex environment

2012-09-25 Thread Ulrich Eckhardt
Am 25.09.2012 13:39, schrieb Phil Pinkerton: Looking for convincing guidelines to change some rather poor practices Scenario : Project has multiple branches with frequent changes by several different developers, merging back to trunk is infrequent and when done merge results in 90% conflicts. s

RE: Branching best practice advice for an inherently complex environment

2012-09-25 Thread John Maher
I feel your pain. The only thing I can think of would be to demonstrate a merge with no conflicts. Then show them what you have to do with the 90% conflicts. You can then explain how much development work can get done if you do not have to resolve the conflicts. How often do you merge? One mist

Branching best practice advice for an inherently complex environment

2012-09-25 Thread Phil Pinkerton
Looking for convincing guidelines to change some rather poor practices Scenario : Project has multiple branches with frequent changes by several different developers, merging back to trunk is infrequent and when done merge results in 90% conflicts. simple example: Project A1 (trunk) copied to