On Tuesday 05 August 2008 07:51:35 Will Coleda wrote: > Using svn as a backing store, how can we more easily work with long > lived branches? > > I've some existing branches which are long lived, and doing the svn > merge either way is extremely slow. > > I know much of our community used svk for a while; I think the usage > there has dropped off as git is the new shiny. My usage of svk was for > local branching; I couldn't easily share my work in progress with the > community. > > Does anyone have *any* recommendations? (including: you're doing the > merge wrong).
Don't use long-lived branches. The smaller the merge in *any* system, the easier it is. -- c
