US 8,527,947 B2Granted

Selective notifications according to merge distance for software version branches within a software configuration management system

AssigneeInternational Business Machines Corporation

InventorGeoffrey M. Clemm

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Abstract

A system for controlling version branching can perform operations including, responsive to a user initiating a check-out operation of a file within a software configuration management system (SCMS), identifying the file and a workspace of the user and searching nodes of the repositories of the SCMS for a successor version of the file. When a successor version of the file is located within a node that is within a predetermined distance of the workspace of the user, a notification that the successor version of the file is within the predetermined distance of the workspace of the user can be output. When a successor version of the file is not located within a node within a predetermined distance of the workspace of the user, the file can be checked-out to the workspace of the user.

Claims20

Dependent claims

A computer program product, comprising:

a non-transitory computer-usable storage medium having stored therein computer-usable program code that, when executed by a computer, controls version branching within a software configuration management system (SCMS), the computer-usable program code include
computer-usable program code that, responsive to a user initiating a check-out operation of a file within the SCMS, identifies the file and a workspace of the user;
computer-usable program code that searches nodes of the repositories of the SCMS for a successor version of the file;
computer-usable program code that, when a successor version of the file is located within a node that is within a predetermined distance of the workspace of the user, outputs a notification that the successor version of the file is within the predetermined distance of the workspace of the user;
and
computer-usable program code that, when a successor version of the file is not located within a node within a predetermined distance of the workspace of the user, checks-out the file to the workspace of the user.

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A system for controlling version branching, comprising:

a processor configured to initiate executable operations comprising:
representing the software configuration management system (SCMS) as a graph comprising a plurality of nodes and a plurality of hops, wherein each hop represents an allowable data transfer between two nodes, wherein each hop is defined according to source-target relationships between nodes within the SCMS;
responsive to a user initiating a check-out operation of a file within the SCMS, determining the file to be checked-out and a workspace of the user to which the file will be checked-out;
searching each node of the SCMS that is within a predetermined number of hops from a node representing the workspace of the user, according to the graph, for a successor version of the file;
when a successor version of the file is identified, outputting a notification that the successor version of the file is within the predetermined distance of the workspace of the user;
and
when a successor version of the file is not identified, checking-out the file to the workspace of the user.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.