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Discussion on: How-to manage different project release versions in Git?

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Marmalade

Hi, Jonathan.

Many thanks for replying. Option 1 seems more like how I envisaged things working, so I'm going to have a play about with things and see what I can come up with.

I always seem to catch myself out and say things like 'What's the correct way to do this?', even though I know it's more about personal preference etc. What I should have asked is how others would approach a scenario like this; I'll try remember that for the future.

Again, thanks to everyone for their advice. It's been a great help.

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Jonathan Irvin

Git is super flexible in how you can use it to solve problems. Keeping separate branches gives you the functionality of a fork, but the flexibility of having it in the same repo. Other members of the team and easily check out those different versions and you can merge branches together as you need code to sync up. You can cherry-pick commits if you want some, but not all changes.

One of the biggest challenges ANY project has to overcome is communication. We can have great tools like Git that help us track our changes and share code, but they are useless without good communication.

Especially with the idea you're working with, there's potential for merge conflicts if there isn't enough cross-collaboration between you and the other developers.