From: Ray Lehtiniemi <rayl@mail.com>
To: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Cc: CPD <cdavidson@altsoftware.com>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Can you do this with GIT?
Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2007 13:45:03 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200707271345.03300.rayl@mail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0707272002250.14781@racer.site>
On Friday 27 July 2007 13:05, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> On Fri, 27 Jul 2007, CPD wrote:
> > We produce variations based on a (mostly) common codebase. In CVS I set
> > up "environment" modules for each platform, then when you are working on
> > that platform, you simply check out the correct environment and build.
> > Only the needed code and tools are exposed in that environment (this is
> > important as clients must NOT see each other's code and most customers
> > have some customization). I do this by defining and renaming modules in
> > the CVSROOT modules file.
>
> I would use branches for that. A base branch with the common code, and
> the customisations in all the branches, which merge from the base branch.
this would break down if there were client-specific modules in the base
branch, though... how could those be hidden from the other clients?
ray
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-07-27 19:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-07-27 18:02 Can you do this with GIT? CPD
2007-07-27 19:05 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-07-27 19:45 ` Ray Lehtiniemi [this message]
2007-07-27 19:49 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-07-27 20:08 ` Ray Lehtiniemi
2007-07-27 19:45 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-07-27 19:52 ` Ray Lehtiniemi
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