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Modelling and version control both play key roles in industrial-scale software development, yet their integration has proved difficult. Significant effort has been expended on improving file-based merging of modellers’ work, but empirical research shows the results of that approach still leave much to be desired in practice. Approaches based on multi-user modelling databases have often foundered by locking too broadly, thus preventing work on different elements in the same model, or by handling versioning themselves, leading to a silo. This article presents an approach to combining multi-user modelling with any external version control system, with no merging and no lock-outs.
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We would like to thank MetaCase’s Risto Pohjonen and Juha-Pekka Tolvanen for implementation work and discussion, and Jordi Cabot for making an early version of this material available for comment on his blog (http://modeling-languages.com/smart-model-versioning/).
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Kelly, S. (2018). Collaborative Modelling with Version Control. In: Seidl, M., Zschaler, S. (eds) Software Technologies: Applications and Foundations. STAF 2017. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 10748. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-74730-9_3
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