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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

9 related topics

Distributed revision control

7 related topics

Motivations for branching

6 related topics

Trunk

3 related topics

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Trunk

Merging

Motivations for branching

Development branch

Shadow or magic branches

Distributed revision control

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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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    Branching (version control)

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