Re: Nine Months in Six Months

[Steve Frécinaux <nudrema gmail com>]

James Henstridge wrote:
> 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.

Actually, what would be great is to have a SCM that allows 
cherry-picking of patches (like git and mercurial I think). This allow 
to backport useful patches very easily if apply clean changesets.