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Make Large Scale Changes Incrementally with Branch By Abstraction | Continuous Delivery
continuousdelivery.com/2011/05/make-large-scale-changes-incrementally-with-branch-by-abstraction/, posted 2012 by peter in development howto management reference versioncontrol
Many development teams are used to making heavy use of branches in version control. Distributed version control systems make this even more convenient. Thus one of the more controversial statements in Continuous Delivery is that you can’t do continuous integration and use branches. By definition, if you have code sitting on a branch, it isn’t integrated. One common case when it seems obvious to use branches in version control is when making a large-scale change to your application. However there is an alternative to using branches: a technique called branch by abstraction.