Something which I’ve really fallen in love with recently is something I’ve named Just-in-Time Branching. It allows my coding brain to just code without having to think about whether something is so large that it has to be branched, and I don’t need to think about when the next release is going to go out, or what the other developers and doing and whether what I’m doing will interfere with their code.
Something which I came up against fairly early on in my Capistrano use was the problem of releasing from tags or branches in SVN. My normal development process for a large release is to tag the trunk, and then release from the tag. Then there are other times when I have a long-running branch that I want released as well. These posed some problems for Capistrano because the repository location was baked right into the deployment scripts.
