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		quicklime on March 5, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: A note of reflection after 10 years of “A successf... I don't understand why you think that. Can you explain why having many release branches is harder in trunk based development? In a previous job, we would just cherry pick bug fix commits over from master to all the active release branches. It wasn't hard.

ivankolev on March 6, 2020 [–]

It's not hard, but it's a manual process which is always prone to errors or oversights. Having to support lots of versions just smells a little fishy to me, maybe justifiable if you have some type of firmware/hardware tie-in.

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