Re: Managing multiple branches in git

On Jun 2, 2009, at 2:31 PM, Tom Lane wrote:

> It's a bit premature to speculate about alternate history tools when
> we haven't figured out what the repository is going to look like.   
> Right
> at the moment I'm much more concerned about the question of supporting
> a checkout-per-branch workflow.  That's something I use pretty nearly
> every day, whereas looking at the history is maybe a once-a-week kind
> of need at most.

Perhaps there's a master repository that corresonds to CVS HEAD, and  
then release branches are actually separate git repositories. This  
way, those who need to maintain back branches can do so with each  
individual repository (and maybe cherry-pick commits to get them to be  
the same in each repo; I'm not sure), and everyone else can just use  
the master repository (and do their normal local branching and merging  
routine as they use it).

Not idea, but might provide some relief…

Best,

David