Re: Nine Months in Six Months

["James Henstridge" <james jamesh id au>]

On 08/09/06, Gustavo J. A. M. Carneiro <gjc inescporto pt> wrote:
>   Your master plan implies branching early and heavily committing to
> both branches for a long time.  Reality check: we are still using this
> archaic software called C.V.S.! Branching with that software is
> incredibly complex.
>
>   Your master plan is blocked by bug #99999999: "migration to
> subversion".

The real issue with handling development in parallel branches is
really complexity of merging.  This is an area where Subversion
doesn't really buy you much over CVS -- you still need to manually
keep track of what you merged to do a repeated merge.

James.