Local developer sandboxes without heavy-weight branching

Developers need local sandboxes to keep separate "threads" of development separate. But when everyone makes a branch for every little task, things get out of hand.

Your branching diagrams are a rat's nest. Branches are forgotten, and the ones that aren't forgotten can easily get hopelessly out of date.

With CodePickle, developers suspend and resume local file changes on their local hard drive. No version control branches are created. There's no appreciable server load because all the activity occurs on the developer's workstation.

When the developer resumes work in the sandbox, CodePickle handles any necessary merge operations — again on the developer's workstation — so the version control server still sees almost no activity.

So reclaim your branching diagrams. Give your developers the advantages of local sandboxes while avoiding the usual headaches on your version control server.