Hello,

A question for those of you using sandbox or experimental branching (where a developer decides to set up a branch for some work that isn't ready to be checked in the main line): Do you usually branch the whole project of the product you're working on, or just the minimum amount of directories?

The reason I'm asking is that our product is composed of about 20-25 different libraries, and then several executables on top of them. Up until now, since our work is fairly localized, I would just branch off one of the libraries, do some work, and then merge stuff back in the main line. That was very convenient because I only had to worry about integrating changes back and forth on that library alone.

However, we might be switching a more traditional way of arranging our libraries and includes (it's a C++ project), and libraries might include header files from other libraries directly from their directory by using relative paths. If we do that, then I won't be able to branch just one library and have it work with the rest of the system. I would have to branch all the libraries at once so they all stay relative to each other.

Is there something I'm missing? Do other people have this problem? Is branching a sub-section of a project something to be avoided? Thanks.