Re: Branching PHP6

From: Date: Sat, 05 Apr 2014 06:00:49 +0000
Subject: Re: Branching PHP6
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Hi! > That's part of it, but I've also noticed a ton of criss-crossed merging > happening between version branches. That, more than anything I think, What criss-crossed merging? Newer branches should never be merged into older ones, so I don't see how any criss-crossing is possible. > makes it a nightmare to read. Furthermore, there's simply no need to have > an ever-increasing number of dead branches that lead nowhere and never > merge back. If somebody wants to find a specific version, that's what tags Branches are dirt-cheap in git, so dead branches is not a problem. Also, the only dead branches are supposed to be release branches and very rarely feature branches, all the rest should be done in private branches and submitted as pull request. -- Stanislav Malyshev, Software Architect SugarCRM: http://www.sugarcrm.com/ (408)454-6900 ext. 227

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