From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Bill Wohler Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Emacs branches in git Date: Sun, 16 Feb 2014 14:30:06 -0800 Organization: Newt Software Message-ID: <878utapu6p.fsf@olgas.newt.com> References: <3188.1392526217@olgas.newt.com> <87eh33irbn.fsf@yandex.ru> <87eh32rf64.fsf@olgas.newt.com> <877g8ux15e.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1392589829 27453 80.91.229.3 (16 Feb 2014 22:30:29 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 16 Feb 2014 22:30:29 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Feb 16 23:30:38 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 1WFAEL-0005V4-Gy for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 16 Feb 2014 23:30:33 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:35307 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WFAEL-0006ts-12 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 16 Feb 2014 17:30:33 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:40391) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WFAEB-0006tm-Nv for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 16 Feb 2014 17:30:28 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WFAE7-0002I5-6P for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 16 Feb 2014 17:30:23 -0500 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:45706) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WFAE6-0002I0-VS for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 16 Feb 2014 17:30:19 -0500 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1WFAE3-0005Di-EH for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 16 Feb 2014 23:30:15 +0100 Original-Received: from c-24-6-50-86.hsd1.ca.comcast.net ([24.6.50.86]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 16 Feb 2014 23:30:15 +0100 Original-Received: from wohler by c-24-6-50-86.hsd1.ca.comcast.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 16 Feb 2014 23:30:15 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 43 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: c-24-6-50-86.hsd1.ca.comcast.net User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.4 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:MNN/aJdVLs0sx9voc8IBB/GFt2k= 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:169672 Archived-At: David Kastrup writes: > 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, s/tags/branches/ > Dmitry is talking about placing tags all into a > single branch. Which makes very little sense. Except that's not the point, but rather a side-effect. The point is that master holds the production-ready commits. > 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. Can you expound on that? -- Bill Wohler aka http://www.newt.com/wohler/ GnuPG ID:610BD9AD