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Branching (version control)

Branching, in version control and software configuration management, is the duplication of an object under version control (such as a source code file or a directory tree). Each object can thereafter be modified separately and in parallel so that the objects become different. In this context the objects are called branches. The users of the version…

Development branch, Distributed revision control & Motivations for branching

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Development branch

DevelopmentReleasedOpen sourceTrunkCVS
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Distributed revision control

Distributed revision controlMonotoneMercurialBazaarDistributed revision control systems
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Motivations for branching

Quality assuranceFixesFeaturesVersionsIntegration
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Trunk

TrunkCutting-edgeCommit
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Trunk

Merging

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Development branch

Shadow or magic branches

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Branching (version control)

Nodes42
Edges41
Triples0
Avg. degree1.95
Density0.047619
Components1

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branch trunk branches development version control called branching also merged changes often different revision may main software parent upstream usually

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