My name is Aleksey Maksimov. I am Software Architect with many years of IT experience and architecture experience. I work for a global IT consulting company and live in the United Kingdom.
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Excellent article on branching in Subversion. One thing missing is the branch timeline chart. Something like this:
Where horisontal line is the trunk timeline and angled lines are releases. Based on my experience, that chart often helps developers to understand when branches are created and how to deal with them.
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