[p4] Branching strategy for major.minor.patch versioning

[Slava Imeshev]

Brian,

> I spent about 2 months writing an object oriented auto merge script 
> for Perforce. I'm not sure what I would do if I had to depend on 
> developers doing all the merges. I'd have to give that some thought.
I 
> also plan to do continuous integration builds on all branches where 
> there is active development.
> These builds will include the automated merges when required and
will 
> generate a build failure when merge conflicts occur.

Very interesting. This sounds very much like our Automerge for
Perforce:

http://www.viewtier.com/products/parabuild/automated_merges_for_scm.ht
m

Regards,

Slava Imeshev