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Subject: Re: Version control and multiple implementation variants (Was:
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On 19.02.13 22:07, Randy Brukardt wrote:
> My level of sharing is much more fine-grained than yours. I'm thinking about
> any individual line of text that's shared,

A similar situation that requires very small changes only is when a
software component needs to be compiled for both Ada 95 and Ada
2005. It works in many cases, but there are differences between the
versions of the language that won't allow the same source to be
accepted by both compilers.

When that is the case, there will be small differences, and they will
stay even when the language version does not affect most of the
"algorithmic lines" of the source text.  I imagine that using version
control and branches, I will be injecting lots of submit and merge
steps between the usual edit and compile steps. Sounds suboptimal.