[DUG] Source Control - Sharing files between projects

[Berend de Boer]

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>>>>> "David" == David Brennan <dugdavid at dbsolutions.co.nz> writes:

    David> I am still not getting you. These are files that cannot be
    David> edited independently of a core project (unlike say vcl
    David> library files). And you can legitimately want to edit them
    David> from the context of each of the 8 projects.

    David> For an example I think you are proposing:

Exactly, you branch the /Reference/Core1 to /Project1/Core1

    David> But my interpretation of your model is that you are relying
    David> on editing each of the core files within the Reference
    David> branches and then merging through to the Project
    David> branches.

No, the reverse. You edit /Project1/Core1 and merge the changes back
to /Reference/Core1 when stable/convenient.

Perforce handles such merge back really well, unlike more primitive
tools.

    David> Furthermore it is while editing one of the projects that
    David> you would want to change one of the core files. 

And you do it exactly there.

    David> And if developers are editing the core files a various
    David> project branches then how do you get each of these changes
    David> reliably merged into the other 7 projects?

You merge the /Project1/Core1 into /Reference/Core1. Project2
developers can merge newer versions of /Reference/Core1 into
/Project2/Core1 when convenient.


    David> Unless there is some easy way of automating or at least
    David> semi-automating this in Perforce?

Perforce won't bother you with merges you already did.

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Berend de Boer


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