New Stream Wizard

This wizard helps you create a new stream in a repository. The two most typical reasons why new streams are created are: 

  1. To fix a bug in an old version of a project, or

  2. To store project variants or a developer's private work. 

This is referred to as splitting a stream.  When splitting a stream, you always split at a pre-defined point in time. This is called the root (base or initial state) of the new stream. The root of a stream created by splitting will always be a project version. For example, if you create a stream to fix a bug in release v1, you would say that the new stream is rooted at v1 (or based on v1). 

After you have created a new stream you will have to either add a project version (select the stream then choose the Copy Version To Stream... menu item) or release a project to the stream in order to add contents to the stream.

Generally, you will split a stream with the intention of eventually merging the changes back into the originating stream. The Merge Wizard can help you merge changes from the new stream back into the originating stream. 

Here is what the New Stream wizard looks like:

 

New Stream Options

Option

Description

Default

Repository

From the drop-down menu, select a repository location.  

First repository location

Name

Type a name for the new stream.

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 Related Topics:

See Streams