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Re: Can you do this with GIT?

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RLRay Lehtiniemi <rayl@mail.com>
Date
Jul 27, 2007, 19:45 UTC
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On Friday 27 July 2007 13:05, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> On Fri, 27 Jul 2007, CPD wrote:
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> > We produce variations based on a (mostly) common codebase. In CVS I set
> > up "environment" modules for each platform, then when you are working on
> > that platform, you simply check out the correct environment and build.
> > Only the needed code and tools are exposed in that environment (this is
> > important as clients must NOT see each other's code and most customers
> > have some customization). I do this by defining and renaming modules in
> > the CVSROOT modules file.
>
> I would use branches for that.  A base branch with the common code, and
> the customisations in all the branches, which merge from the base branch.

this would break down if there were client-specific modules in the base branch, though... how could those be hidden from the other clients?

ray
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  3. Ray LehtiniemiJul 27, 2007
  4. Johannes SchindelinJul 27, 2007
  5. Ray LehtiniemiJul 27, 2007
  6. Linus TorvaldsJul 27, 2007
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