simple use case advice

[John Arbash Meinel]

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On 9/30/2010 1:10 PM, Chris Hecker wrote:
> 
> I've got a branch, and version N works, and version N+1 doesn't.  I
> already checked in N+1.  In the old days, I'd roll back to N, keeping a
> separate manual copy of N+1, and do the binary search thing, then sync
> to N+1 and fix the problem.
> 
> Is there a fancy dvcs way to make this easier?  Should I just make a new
> branch at N, then do the work there, checking in, until it's N+1+bugfix,
> then merge that over to the main branch?

Some people favor doing the binary search and then branching at *that*
point.

But yes, creating a new branch, and then merging the fix in is the usual
way of doing it.

John
=:->


> 
> Hopefully that makes sense.
> 
> Chris


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