Yes he does need to know that the release has changed. This is something
you would need to be aware of when you do the merge.

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Todd Thiessen
 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Thiessen, Todd (BVW:9T16) 
> Sent: Thursday, March 26, 2009 12:53 PM
> To: Maven Users List
> Subject: RE: Possible problem when multiple developers depend 
> on SNAPSHOT versions
> 
> I don't think so. When Bob merges the trunk to branch he will 
> have both Alice's changes and his.  When he does an install, 
> the 2.2-SNAPSHOT version will contain both his and Alices 
> changes for all modules.
> 
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> Todd Thiessen
>  
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Trevor Harmon [mailto:[email protected]]
> > Sent: Thursday, March 26, 2009 12:39 PM
> > To: Maven Users List
> > Subject: Re: Possible problem when multiple developers depend on 
> > SNAPSHOT versions
> > 
> > On Mar 25, 2009, at 3:29 PM, Todd Thiessen wrote:
> > 
> > > Bob should work on a branch. IMHO if any work is taking a 
> long time 
> > > and you can't commit it to trunk in a timely manner, then
> > do that work
> > > on a branch so you can commit often and still take 
> specific control 
> > > over when Alice's changes get merged to Bob's branch so 
> he can test 
> > > the merge thoroughly before putting his changes in trunk.
> > 
> > This does not solve Bob's problem. Let's say he's committing to his 
> > branch, and then at some point he merges Alice's changes to 
> the trunk 
> > into his branch. He then performs thorough testing of this new code 
> > and encounters no problems.
> > But of course he won't have any problems testing the new Foo 
> > 2.2-SNAPSHOT because AppB is still still using the old code 
> from Foo 
> > 2.1-SNAPSHOT. Until he realizes that Foo's version has 
> changed, and he 
> > updates AppB accordingly, branching, merging, and testing 
> won't help 
> > him.
> > 
> > Trevor
> > 
> > 
> > 
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