Re: Branches and versions

On 17 July 2014 18:13, Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com> wrote:
> That kind of structure seems unintuitive to me, as opposed to having
> branches or tags. What's the advantage?

The advantage is that they're easier to manage and iterate on,
especially when you need to copy files between them (or compare
between them), which is something that in a case like this, we end up
doing quite often (in my experience). Also, we're only going to have
two or three files each, so the management overhead of branches and
tags gets to be noticeable.

This also makes it a lot easier to work with and build two versions at
once, which is useful when you've just updated all the versions with
some new tweak and just need to build/test all of them.

- Tianon