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Selective notifications according to merge distance for software version branches within a software configuration management system

  • US 9,454,362 B2
  • Filed: 12/09/2013
  • Issued: 09/27/2016
  • Est. Priority Date: 12/28/2008
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A computer-implemented method of controlling version branching within a software configuration management system (SCMS), comprising:

  • identifying a file and a workspace of a user in response to the user initiating a check-out operation of the file within the SCMS;

    searching nodes, using a processor, of the repositories of the SCMS for a successor version of the file; and

    outputting, in response to the successor version of the file being located at a node within a predetermined distance of the workspace, a notification that the successor version of the file is within the predetermined distance.

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