Configuration Management - seminar 2c:

Repository in-depth

Literature

• Brad Appleton, Stephen P. Berczuk, Ralph Cabrera, Robert Orenstein: Streamed Lines - Branching Patterns for Parallel Software Development , 1998.
  Video - intro (117 Mb), slides and discussion questions - intro, (other questions - intro).
  discussion questions - specific patterns (other questions - specific patterns).
  • Read the introduction part of this paper to get the general concepts and principles guiding branching and merging (pp. 1-21).
  • Read the following patterns so you are ready to discuss them at the seminar:
    • P5, P7, P8, C2, C3, C4, S2, S5 and S6.
  • Browse quickly through some of the other patterns in case there is a pattern or two you find particularly interesting.

  Seminar summary

  • preliminary exam schedule
  • introduction to Student Peer Reviewing
  • strategies for branching and merging

  For the interested student

  Further reading:
  • trunk-based development
  • git flow
  Compare these to the principles of liveness and safety from the Appleton et al. paper.

  Quote of the day

  I know no way of judging the future but by the past. (Patrick Henry)
  You can never plan the future by the past. (Edmund Burke)

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  Updated November 2, 2024