Archive for March, 2010
Revision histories with more than one root
Posted by Mark in CMCrossroads, Plain Old Blog on March 18, 2010
Most of the time when we deal with revision history we are dealing with a directed acyclic graph with a single root. Most item revision histories develop from a single starting revision, as illustrated below. If two items belonging to different revision histories are combined we produce a graph with more than one root, as [...]
Items have history
Posted by Mark in CMCrossroads, Configuration Management, Plain Old Blog, SCM Tool, Software Configuration Management, Version Control on March 17, 2010
As those of you who have been following this blog for any time will know I am currently looking in some detail at parallel development, specifically how it can be managed safely by non-expert version managers. I have used parallel development with much success on many projects but codifying my knowledge into a tool is [...]
