Re: Can we remove "NEWS" tag ?

On 02/11/2015 10:52 AM, Lior Kaplan wrote: > Hi, > > I've been doing some editing to the NEWS files, and keep getting this > problem > > $ git diff NEWS > fatal: ambiguous argument 'NEWS': both revision and filename > Use '--' to separate filenames from revisions > > Although I can do as it suggests, I would prefer to remove the NEWS tag we > have since 2008 as part of the move from CVS to SVN. > > Any objections ? While I don't think anyone would actually be using that in the near future, can't you just rename it to NEWS-2008 or something? (Or manually retagging and then deleting if nothing else.) * still can be found * no historically important data is lost (just kidding) * problem solved Just because I've seen people argue in favor of keeping historical branches and stuff, and while I don't see a lot of value, it might be needed at some point. ~Florian