Towards odyssey-VCS 2: improvements over a UML-based version control system

Models are becoming first class artifacts in Software Engineering. Due to that, an infrastructure is needed to support model evolution in the same way we have for source-code. One of the key elements of such infrastructure is a version control system properly designed for models. In previous work, we presented Odyssey-VCS, a version control system tailored to fine-grained UML model elements. In this paper, we discuss the main improvements that we are incorporating on the second release of this system, which are: support for UML 2, reflective processing, explicit branching and auto-branching, generic merge algorithm, support for pessimistic concurrency policy, and support for hooks.

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