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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 31, 2006
Filed:
Nov. 21, 2000
Bradley J. Bartz, Lynnwood, WA (US);
Christopher G. Kaler, Redmond, WA (US);
Martyn S. Lovell, Seattle, WA (US);
Yevgeniy Rozenfeld, Bellevue, WA (US);
Bradley J. Bartz, Lynnwood, WA (US);
Christopher G. Kaler, Redmond, WA (US);
Martyn S. Lovell, Seattle, WA (US);
Yevgeniy Rozenfeld, Bellevue, WA (US);
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
Development of multiple-version software employs versioned documents in a store. The documents are compared (differenced) at both line and character levels. Potential conflicts in merged documents are marked by detecting possible alternative histories from a common parent document. Changes from an earlier version are removed from a later version of the same document even when the document has intervening versions. A build lab allows developers to work in parallel on a new software build while another build is being run and patched on a different set of documents; the developers each have private copies from which changes pertaining to a build have been added, and then backed out when the file is returned to a common area.