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BillWoodruff9-Feb-14 21:35
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Gary Wheeler10-Feb-14 0:51
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Gary Wheeler10-Feb-14 1:15
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Everyone has their own workflow that's best for them.

That said, a lot of my team members make copies of working files, rather than use source control as a tool. I work with one guy who tends to keep everything checked out, and only checks in prior to doing a build for distribution. It drives me nuts, because he'll have days or even weeks worth of work that exists only on his machine (our source control data base gets backed up daily). I'm tempted to power off his machine and substitute a bad hard drive to teach him a lesson Frown | :( .

My approach, at least in our development branches, is to work incrementally and check-in each successful increment. Most of the time I make the feature I'm working on disabled/invisible/inactive in release builds, until I think it's ready. This makes backtracking, which I do a lot more than I'd like to admit, simpler. Diff's are handy too when I've led myself down the proverbial garden path Sigh | :sigh: .
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