Re: Cleaning 5.3 git branches ?
| From: | Andrea Faulds | Date: | Thu, 28 Aug 2014 23:12:35 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Cleaning 5.3 git branches ? | ||
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On 28 Aug 2014, at 23:44, Johannes Schlüter <johannes@schlueters.de> wrote:
> On Fri, 2014-08-29 at 01:34 +0300, Andrey Andreev wrote:
>
>> Tags preserve history well enough, as previously noted - they are
>> basically immutable branches. This looks like a no-brainer to me.
>
> This is not exactly true - we have cases where where, for whatever
> reason, commits were made after the tag. i.e. I recently got the request
> to add some CVE IDs to the NEWS file in 5.3 just for having them
> documented in VCS.
>
> I'd say it's trivial to create the historic repo and that will certainly
> keep all history.
I don’t see the need, though. For cases where we added stuff after release, just make an extra
tag.
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Andrea Faulds
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