Tuesday, October 1, 2013

On Branching - Divergence and Convergence - Bertrand Meyer (Tue 01 Oct 2013)

Untitled - Hvar / Croatia (Wed 31 Jul 2013)

Bertrand Meyer (*) writes on the difficulties associated with branching (software development specially, but it could be any human endeavour):
the emergence of separate lines of development with the expectation (*) that they will be merged back later on, is to guarantee disaster.

It is easy to diverge, but hard to converge; not only hard, but unpredictable.
via The laws of branching (part 1) (*) by Bertrand Meyer (*.

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