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