Re: auto branch propagation

[Mark D. Baushke]

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Kesavan T.S <address@hidden> writes:

> We have a project which has several releases in a year and people
> working in parallel. We want to setup branches like REL1, REL2 , REL3
> . When REL1 branch goes into production  is there any feature by which
> and bug fixes made for eg: ConnectionPool.java to automatically
> propagate to REL2 and REL3. 

No.

> If there is any conflict auto merging REL1 and REL2 or REL2 to REL3 it
> should send an email notification to the user to alert that this needs
> to be manually merged. 

I am not aware of any such tool.

> Also we are thinking of migrating from SCCS to CVS I would appreciate
> if any body has done this successfully and any pointers on things to
> plan for .

It has been done. Some do it as SCCS to CVS directly, most other have gone
through RCS format as an intermediary.

Interesting links include:

  http://www.gigascale.org/softdevel/faq/17.html

  http://www.cs.purdue.edu/homes/trinkle/RCS/

  ftp://locke.ccil.org/pub/esr/sccs2rcs-1.1.tar.gz

  http://www.cs.purdue.edu/homes/trinkle/RCS/contrib/rcsfreeze.pl

  http://www.catb.org/~esr/sccs2rcs/

  http://www.catb.org/~esr/sccs2rcs/sccs2rcs

I hope you find them of interest.

        Enjoy!
        -- Makr
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