Linus On Branching Practices

Posted by CmdrTaco on Tuesday November 30, 2010 @05:18AM from the not-the-wood-kind dept.

rocket22 writes "Not long ago Linus Torvalds made some comments about issues the kernel maintainers were facing while applying the 'feature branch' pattern. They are using Git (which is very strong with branching and merging) but still need to take care of the branching basics to avoid ending up with unstable branches due to unstable starting points. While most likely your team doesn't face the same issues that kernel development does, and even if you're using a different DVCS like Mercurial, it's worth taking a look at the description of the problem and the clear solution to be followed in order to avoid repeating the same mistakes. The same basics can be applied to every version control system with good merge tracking, so let's avoid religious wars and focus on the technical details."

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Re:RELIGIOUS? by Anonymous Coward · 2010-11-30 05:22 · Score: 4, Funny

Agreed. Except when it comes to mercurial which is the sux0rs.
Yeah by truthsearch · 2010-11-30 05:23 · Score: 3, Funny

so let's avoid religious wars and focus on the technical details
Hahahaha... Good one!

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1. Re:Yeah by Monkeedude1212 · 2010-11-30 05:31 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  I know. Linus is such a Linux Fanboy. Its so obvious.
2. Re:Yeah by Anonymous Coward · 2010-11-30 05:59 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  him and his blanket
Re:RELIGIOUS? by Anonymous Coward · 2010-11-30 05:49 · Score: 1, Funny

My VCS can beat up your VCS.

Oh yeah? My VCS has over 30 years of continuous history!
Anonymous Coward by Anonymous Coward · 2010-11-30 06:21 · Score: 1, Funny

From TFA:
"Vaselines are key"
I totally agree.