Advice re. implementing Mercurial

[David Capps]

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From: BOGGESS Rod CORE [mailto:Rod.Boggess at tenova.com] 
Sent: 09 February 2015 13:24
To: David Capps; Martin Geisler
Cc: mercurial at selenic.com
Subject: RE: Advice re. implementing Mercurial

> You don't maintain separate repos or branches for different customers?

Not as such, no - we have well over a hundred active customers, and probably 95%+ of the code is common between the apps we deploy to each customer, so maintaining a separate repo or branch for each customer would be an awful lot of work. The majority of the development goes into the shared core code too; customer-specific changes do happen but aren't that common, we prefer to roll any new features into the main app so they're available should another customer need a similar feature.

The end result is that the majority of bugfixes would need to apply to all customers, so if we maintained a separate branch per customer, we'd just end up needing to apply most bugfixes to every single customer-specific branch.


Cheers,

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David Capps