From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Kastrup Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Emacs branches in git Date: Sun, 16 Feb 2014 21:17:49 +0100 Organization: Organization?!? Message-ID: <877g8ux15e.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> References: <3188.1392526217@olgas.newt.com> <87eh33irbn.fsf@yandex.ru> <87eh32rf64.fsf@olgas.newt.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1392581887 12861 80.91.229.3 (16 Feb 2014 20:18:07 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 16 Feb 2014 20:18:07 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Feb 16 21:18:16 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1WF8AJ-0003x6-Oz for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 16 Feb 2014 21:18:15 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:34896 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WF8AJ-0001ZD-6c for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 16 Feb 2014 15:18:15 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:51742) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WF8AC-0001Z5-2G for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 16 Feb 2014 15:18:13 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WF8A5-0001LP-JB for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 16 Feb 2014 15:18:07 -0500 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:42525) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WF8A5-0001LK-CP for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 16 Feb 2014 15:18:01 -0500 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1WF8A3-0003eG-BT for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 16 Feb 2014 21:17:59 +0100 Original-Received: from x2f420a0.dyn.telefonica.de ([2.244.32.160]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 16 Feb 2014 21:17:59 +0100 Original-Received: from dak by x2f420a0.dyn.telefonica.de with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 16 Feb 2014 21:17:59 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 28 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: x2f420a0.dyn.telefonica.de X-Face: 2FEFf>]>q>2iw=B6, xrUubRI>pR&Ml9=ao@P@i)L:\urd*t9M~y1^:+Y]'C0~{mAl`oQuAl \!3KEIp?*w`|bL5qr,H)LFO6Q=qx~iH4DN; i"; /yuIsqbLLCh/!U#X[S~(5eZ41to5f%E@'ELIi$t^ Vc\LWP@J5p^rst0+('>Er0=^1{]M9!p?&:\z]|;&=NP3AhB!B_bi^]Pfkw User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:4WD9bSPX7GGl4EGafIW5wA1EBgY= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:169664 Archived-At: Bill Wohler writes: > Dmitry Gutov writes: > >> Bill Wohler writes: >> >>> master: For tagged releases. >>> >>> dev: How trunk is used now. >> >> Why is that? >> >> 1. People can put tags on revisions in release branches. Why dedicate a >> branch just for release tags? > > Please see http://nvie.com/posts/a-successful-git-branching-model/ for > the rationale. Also, in git, release branches are deleted when they are > no longer needed. You are talking past each other. You want to organize tags into a directory of tags, Dmitry is talking about placing tags all into a single branch. Which makes very little sense. But it's not obvious to casual users of gits that you can have tags in a directory structure that has nothing to do with either the work directory or the commit tree. -- David Kastrup