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In Perforce, which is more or less what Google is using, you can branch any directory within the repo. (You would never branch the whole repo; that makes no se
by ScottBurson 8y ago
In Perforce, which is more or less what Google is using, you can branch any directory within the repo. (You would never branch the whole repo; that makes no sense.) So if you wanted to construct a directory with one version of one subdirectory, and a different version of another subdirectory, that's quite straightforward.
- ec109685 8y agoGoogle branches google for releases. Otherwise, you would end up with version skew across dependencies, which would be a mess.