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Branching and merging: an investigation into current version control practices

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Phillips, Shaun
Sillito, Jonathan
Walker, Rob
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2015-07-28T20:07:41Z
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2015-07-28T20:07:41Z
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2011
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Abstract
The use of version control has become ubiquitous in software development projects. Version control systems facilitate parallel development and maintenance through branching, the creation of isolated codelines. Merging is a consequence of branching and is the process of integrating codelines. However, there are unanswered questions about the use of version control to support parallel development; in particular, how are branching and merging used in practice? What defines a successful branching and merging strategy? As a first step towards answering these questions, we recruited a diverse sample of 140 version control users to participate in an online survey. In this paper, we present the survey results and 4 key observations about branching and merging practices in software development projects.
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Url
http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1984642.1984645
Publisher
ACM
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1984642.1984645
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http://hdl.handle.net/1880/50669
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