Release, Snapshot, Baseline
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Hi,
What is the difference between creating a release from build vs creating a snapshot or a baseline? Are they all basically known as tagging in the general SCM context?
A release is just a tag of a build which is considered the release. It's used in the work items for identifying which build the work item affects. Releases are only indirectly tied to the SCM through the build record.
Snapshot and baselines are directly tied to the SCM. A baseline remembers the state of a component for a point in time. A snapshot is a collection of baselines in a point in time.
First, I highly recommend that all of your builds (personal or not) be
done from a workspace, not a stream.
You cannot define a build to build a sandbox (i.e. a set of files loaded
onto a particular machine), because the build runs on one of the build
machines, and will load the files from the specified workspace into a
sandbox on the build machine.
Cheers,
Geoff
On 1/11/2011 8:53 AM, erwl88 wrote:
done from a workspace, not a stream.
You cannot define a build to build a sandbox (i.e. a set of files loaded
onto a particular machine), because the build runs on one of the build
machines, and will load the files from the specified workspace into a
sandbox on the build machine.
Cheers,
Geoff
On 1/11/2011 8:53 AM, erwl88 wrote:
Are normal builds executed on a stream while personal builds executed
on a workspace repository? How do we build on the local repository
(sandbox) then?