Agile version control?
- by Paul Dixon
I'm trying to work out a good method to manage code changes on a large project with multiple teams. We use subversion at the moment, but I want more flexibility in building a new release than I seem to be able to get with subversion.
Here's roughly I want:
for each developer to create easily identifiable patches for the project. Each patch delivers a complete user story (a releasable feature or fix). It might encompass many changes to many files.
developers are able to easily apply and remove their own and other patches to facilitate testing
release manager selects the patches to be used in the next release into a new branch
branch is tested, fixes merged in, and ultimately merged into live
teams can then pull these changes back down into their sandboxes.
I'm looking at stacked git as a way of achieving this, but what other tools or techniques can deliver this sort of workflow?