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.
--- Todd Thiessen > -----Original Message----- > From: Trevor Harmon [mailto:tre...@vocaro.com] > 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 > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@maven.apache.org > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@maven.apache.org