To branch or not to branch unique projects started from a common code set

2010-09-16 Thread John Owen
Background: We have been developing an embedded code base for a hardware platform using SVN as the code repository. We now have customers A, B, C and D each with unique software requirements. The embedded code base that we developed for our platform hardware will be the starting code base fo

RE: To branch or not to branch unique projects started from a common code set

2010-09-17 Thread Jeremy Mordkoff
You need to think about your build process and software architecture and then design your branching strategy to support it. For instance, if you find a bug in the base code, how are you going to get that fix out to all of your customers? One solution is to develop your base code as one project

Re: To branch or not to branch unique projects started from a common code set

2010-09-17 Thread Les Mikesell
On 9/16/10 10:45 PM, John Owen wrote: Background: We have been developing an embedded code base for a hardware platform using SVN as the code repository. We now have customers A, B, C and D each with unique software requirements. The embedded code base that we developed for our platform ha