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Merge Management
From: |
Zachary M. Smith |
Subject: |
Merge Management |
Date: |
Wed, 25 Apr 2001 10:28:43 -0700 |
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Mutt/1.2.5i |
I am the build engineer for my company and one of the things that I
am currently working on is a Source Control Strategy which defines
things like when we branch, when and how we tag, and basically just
lays out the does and don't-s of the source control system (which is
currently CVS).
One of the aspects of this document that I am dealing with is how to
manage merges. Most of the documentation that I have read (cvs and
others) suggests that you have the person best suited to resolve conflicts
do the merges. This is commonly *not* the build engineer or the source
control system admin, but is more likely the developers who wrote the code.
That makes sense to me. However, I am wondering if anybody has any thoughts
on this topic or some suggestions for what has worked for them in the past.
What I think i'd like to do is try to do the merges myself and delegate
conflict resolution responsibilities to developers but CVS does not appear to
have a very clean way of doing this. Has anybody had any luck with doing
things this way? Any tips or tricks to make it a bit smoother?
-zach
- Merge Management,
Zachary M. Smith <=