Local directories and paths

[heba]

Hello,

EA provides the possibility to define a local path and assign it to a variable, e.g. define %BRANCH% and assign to /project/branch-1 to be used for packages.

Now, when I'm branching, I branch the eap together with the controlled packages which aren't version controlled but just Xml files.  Afterwards I'd set %BRANCH% to the new branch and I can load+save packages to that branch.

Unfortunately, these variables seem to be global. So if I have more than one branch and change %BRANCH% to /project/branch-2,  EA also exports packages from the first branch here.

Does anyone have a better idea here?  (Changing the branching strategy is not an option. We're branching the whole project per feature.)

Thanks,
Heiko

[Geert Bellekens]

Does anyone have a better idea here?

Yes, don't branch! Branching an EA model (and merging even more so) is the one of the fastest ways to self destruction.

Geert

[heba]

Thanks, but that's not really an option.  

By the way, in the branch I only modify the controlled package. The EAP file is not merged and the controlled package XML is basically only copied back which is why I usually don't get in trouble here  

Best would be to have a path relative to the EAP file path but so far I did not find something like this.

-Heiko