Configuration Management - lecture 4b:

Repository in-depth

Literature

• Ulf Asklund et al.: The Unified Extensional Versioning Model.
  Read this article. Make sure that you fully understand:
  • the difference between a generic and bound configuration
  • in what way the UEVM is "unified"
  • what "version concentration" is
• Brad Appleton et al.: Streamed Lines - Branching Patterns for Parallel Software Development.
  • Read the introduction part of this paper to get the context.
  • Read the following patterns so you are ready to discuss them at the lecture:
    • P5, P7, P8, C2, C3, C4, S2, S5 and S6.
  • Browse quickly through the rest of the patterns.

  Lecture summary

  • intentional and extensional versioning models
  • bound and generic configurations
  • strategies for branching and merging

  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 11, 2004