Best branching strategy when doing continuous integration?

Question

What is the best branching strategy to use when you want to do continuous integration?

1. Release Branching: develop on trunk, keep a branch for each rel

Answer 1

I find the topic really interesting since I heavily rely on branches on my daily job.

• I remember Mark Shuttleworth proposing a model about keeping the main branch pristine while going beyond conventional CI. I posted about it here.
• Since I'm familiar with Cruise Control, I also blogged about task branches and CI here. It's an step by step tutorial explaning how to do it with Plastic SCM.
• Finally, I found some of the topics about CI (and potentially talking about branching) at Duvall's book on CI very interesting too.

Hope you find the links interesting.