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2025

• Martin Fowler on branches

• The simulation/projects I want to try:

  • show mainline
  • show curved lines moving away from the mainline branch for all codelines
  • generate this for a real repository with lots of branches as a tree
    • rely on diff distances/length for the visualization

• While considering branches, I want to consider

  • amount of work put in
  • time to delivery and results
  • risk, mitigated by testing
  • cost of testing
  • simplicity and ease of use

• Talking to the article using chatgpt

  • this was not particularly useful
  • I did get a lot more out of deepseek, and I can see it rotating in place the same way I did

— Kunal