Subversion Best Practices: Merging and Merge Tracking

Broadcast Date: Wednesday, January 19, 2011
Time: 10:00 AM PT / 12:00 PM CT / 1:00 PM ET
Duration: One hour

Speakers:
Bob Jenkins, Director, Subversion Services, CollabNet
Paul Burba, Subversion Engineer, CollabNet
Patrick Egan, Publisher, CM Crossroads

Subversion, the industry’s leading version control tool, has numerous features that are critical to enterprises like yours. The appropriate use of those features can make a lot of difference in the success and return on investment an enterprise gets from Subversion.

Most enterprises find themselves with multiple lines of development in process simultaneously that need isolation. The logical way to accomplish that isolation is through branching, but the need for isolation is normally short lived before the work needs to be merged with changes made on other lines of development. That means merging. Of course you want to know what has been merged to what and you want the tool to facilitate subsequent merges by utilizing that knowledge as well. That means merge tracking.

This webcast will be looking at best practices around merging and merge tracking. It will be assumed that the participant already knows what both of these features are and from a high level how Subversion logs merge tracking data. The webcast will dig deeper looking at:

• The different types of mergeinfo
• When is mergeinfo not considered or recorded
• Why you should be using 1.6.9 clients today
• What’s coming with 1.7.0 for merge and mergeinfo

CollabNet has been the primary commercial sponsor of Subversion since its inception, as well as the leader in helping enterprises deploy Subversion. This depth of experience together with the technical knowledge of the implementation of merge tracking gives CollabNet the ability to share merging best practices that have worked for other enterprises.

Attend this Webcast if you want to:

• Learn more about Subversion merging and merge tracking
• Understand how the functionality has been improved
• Implement merging best practices

Bob Jenkins, Director, Subversion Services,
CollabNet

Bob Jenkins has spent nearly 14 years focused on application life-cycle tools. For the past nine years, Mr. Jenkins has worked for CollabNet as a sales engineer, principal collaboration consultant, senior product marketing manager, and currently as Director of Subversion Services. At CollabNet, Mr. Jenkins helps define the areas of investment by CollabNet in Subversion, the fastest growing version control tool designed for software configuration management (SCM). He also consults with enterprises that are planning to adopt Subversion on how to apply best practices to their SCM processes. Mr. Jenkins has over 20 years of experience in software development and application customization. Prior to CollabNet, Mr. Jenkins worked for Rational Software concentrating on configuration and change management.

Paul Burba, Subversion Engineer,
CollabNet

Paul joined CollabNet's Version Control/SCM Team as a developer in 2007.  In that role he does open source development on the Subversion project where he is a full-committer.  His initial role at CollabNet was to help complete the implementation of Subversion's merge tracking feature.  His continued effort in improving the performance and functionality of merge tracking makes him an expert on this topic. Prior to working at CollabNet, Paul got his first exposure to Subversion while working to port it to IBM's OS/400 (a.k.a. i5/OS, IBM i).

About the Sponsor:
CollabNet is the application lifecycle management platform leader for distributed software development teams. CollabNet’s TeamForge is the most open and extensible platform supporting heterogeneous environments, methodologies, and technologies. With an integrated suite of easy-to-use tools that share a centralized repository, it is the only ALM platform architected for a culture of collaboration. By design, this enables visibility around the entire development process. Teams of any size, working any where are empowered by the most advanced web 2.0 platform that simplifies software delivery. Millions of developers worldwide use CollabNet to reduce costs and accelerate innovation.