Branch or New Repo?

Jim Hague jim.hague at acm.org
Thu Jun 25 09:19:57 CDT 2009


On Thursday 25 June 2009 14:39:30 Greg Ward wrote:
> IMHO branches have a couple of advantages here:
>
> * you can use 'transplant' to cherrypick your bug fixes over; with
> separate repos, you would have to "export | import", probably between
> two working copies

Er - have I misunderstood something? I've been happily transplanting between 
separate repos for some time.

My (limited) experience with in-branch repos makes me think that if you are 
comfortable with working with them, and you have a big repo, then fine. But I 
prefer separate repos.
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