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Change Package Feature Overview
many resources would be required to accelerate the release schedule. How
can abcBusiness provide the timestamp feature without affecting the
current release? Because the code for this feature is isolated within a
change package, the Apply CP command can be used to transfer the
feature to the earlier, stable release.
The buildmaster at abcBusiness would:
Create a variant project off of the checkpoint for version 3.0. This
variant project is isolated from the rest of the development team so
that unwanted changes are not added to the main trunk of the
development path.
Use Apply CP to apply the change package to the variant project. The
change package contains all the files that were changed or added to
produce the timestamp feature. Apply CP is essentially adding the
feature to the variant of Aurora 3.0.
Create an executable of the software.
That executable can then be tested by Quality Assurance and shipped to
the customer.
Resync CP and Resync By CP Commands
This section provides an example to show how Resync CP can be used in
your environment. The example also illustrates how Resync By CP can be
used in a developer’s sandbox.
The development team at abcBusiness is working on the next release,
which contains hundreds of files that span many Source Integrity projects.
Whenever a fix is made, or a feature added, it may require the
manipulation of a single file, or many different files across multiple
projects. A fix or new feature may also include new dependencies within
the source code.
If developers resynchronize only a single file into their sandboxes, their
builds may break because of new dependencies in the code. Such broken
builds cause delays and prevent the team from completing their work on
time. However, it is possible to avoid this lost time by using the Resync CP
and Resync By CP commands.
Resync CP allows developers to specify a change package and have all
changes associated with that change package resynchronized into their
sandboxes. The commands save development time because they:
automatically search for the required files
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