What is a branch?

Bela Babik teki321 at gmail.com
Thu Feb 14 16:48:47 CST 2008


>  What does a brach give in the situation above that I wouldn't get by
>  just committing another child revision to Cf, and thereby creating two
>  heads in the repository?
>
>  Is the point that by changing the branch name, I label changesets Cb1,
>  Cb2, etc., and then it will be easier to see where changes come from
>  when I merge these changesets with the development trunk?

Yes. If you have like 10 heads, then it is easier to identify them if
you have a name attached to them.

For me to use a clone is not an option. The code what I am tracking
can be used only on one path.

teki


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