Maintaining customizations to mantis in private repo

[tahir]

Hi,
How can one keep customizations to mantis code in private repo while maintaining the ability to pull in (merge) new versions occasionally.

We have Mantis 1.0.6 installed in our company. I would like to be able to customize parts of the code. When it's time to upgrade, I would like to pull in new version from mantisbt repo and merge it to my private branch.

Can any one guide me?

Regards
Tahir

[tahir]

It looks like the following page have much of the info I need.
http://docs.mantisbt.org/rpxnow/en/developers.html

I just have one additional question: Is private branch process safe for a branch as old as 1.0.6? or will it work with only newer branches?
That is if I setup a private branch from 1.0.6, will I be able to upgrade to latest version using a merge?

Regards
Tahir Akhtar

[vboctor]

I would recommend you use the master-1.2.x. This tip of this branch is 1.2.0rc2 + fixes. This is so close to being gold and given that you are going to be implementing customizations, any minor issues you might find should be able to fix.