From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jason Rumney Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Checkout the sources for the release branch (with proposed new file) Date: Thu, 24 May 2007 21:38:55 +0100 Message-ID: <4655F7DF.8020405@gnu.org> References: <4654C2CF.1060402@gnu.org> <4654C5AA.9000204@gmail.com> <4654CC27.3000908@gmail.com> <87odkbunni.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <4654CF9B.40309@gmail.com> <4654D337.8070602@gnu.org> <4654D44C.2000303@gmail.com> <4654D643.70107@gnu.org> <4654D8EC.5080802@gmail.com> <20070524143730.GA2592@muc.de> <87bqga2haq.fsf@catnip.gol.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1180039159 26158 80.91.229.12 (24 May 2007 20:39:19 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 24 May 2007 20:39:19 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Alan Mackenzie , Chong Yidong , Emacs Devel , "Lennart Borgman \(gmail\)" , Andreas Schwab To: Miles Bader Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu May 24 22:39:13 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1HrK5X-00036m-18 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 24 May 2007 22:39:11 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HrK5Z-0002Up-T9 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 24 May 2007 16:39:13 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HrK5W-0002Uj-2k for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 24 May 2007 16:39:10 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HrK5U-0002UX-3N for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 24 May 2007 16:39:09 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HrK5T-0002UU-VG for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 24 May 2007 16:39:08 -0400 Original-Received: from outmail1.freedom2surf.net ([194.106.33.237]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1HrK5S-0002kt-RY; Thu, 24 May 2007 16:39:07 -0400 Original-Received: from [127.0.0.1] (i-83-67-23-108.freedom2surf.net [83.67.23.108]) by outmail1.freedom2surf.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id D4D8651140; Thu, 24 May 2007 21:39:04 +0100 (BST) User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.0 (Windows/20070326) In-Reply-To: <87bqga2haq.fsf@catnip.gol.com> X-detected-kernel: Linux 2.4-2.6 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:71768 Archived-At: Miles Bader wrote: > There are a lot of tags that arguably should just be deleted... > Deleting branch tags makes the branch almost impossible to reach (single files can be referenced by revision number, but for more than a handful of files this is too much effort). It would be better just to document somewhere which branches are active, and which have recently become inactive and why (merged, released, abandoned...).