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Re: can I checkout up to three branches into one workspace?
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Pierre Asselin |
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Re: can I checkout up to three branches into one workspace? |
Date: |
Wed, 19 Jan 2005 01:46:48 +0000 (UTC) |
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Mark Hanna <address@hidden> wrote:
> We want to reconstruct our code base within one module that already
> exists. Currently we branch a copy of the entire src of the module onto
> a branch and develop it specifically for each customer but due to the
> increasing number of customers we want to change the way we work.
Before we go any further, do you ship sources ? If not, why can't
you have an integrated source tree supporting all variants and
select the customer variant at build time with conditional compilation
and similar tricks ?
> [ ... ]
> The idea is to keep a generic branch and at a validated point, branch
> off individual files onto customer specific branches (i.e. customer_A,
> customer_B, etc). This point will also be used to create a branch for
> fixes. [ ... ]
Yeah, it can be done, but it's a lot of trouble. I would look at
alternatives first.
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