Branching: branches versus streams

In the course of a collaborative development project, you may find it useful to split off the codeline into multiple codelines, each having a distinct purpose.

Example

When a certain milestone is reached in development, you might choose to copy the code into a new codeline for internal Quality Assurance testing, thereby creating a branch for testing.

After the codes passes all tests, the code might be copied up to a Beta branch where it is subjected to real-world use at beta sites.

Later, you may choose to merge one or more of these new branches back into the main codeline.

See Streams.