From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@IRO.UMontreal.CA>
To: "Óscar Fuentes" <ofv@wanadoo.es>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: New branch
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 2010 17:53:46 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwv8wbhn8tq.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87aavyt3u1.fsf@telefonica.net> ("Óscar Fuentes"'s message of "Thu, 28 Jan 2010 20:41:10 +0100")
> ... for the people that at that time have branches of `trunk' and
> `pending', if they do not adjust their reference branches to match the
> change, they can get confused: the lesser problem is the disappearance
> of `pending', which it is just an annoyance, but `trunk' suddendly
> taking the role of the former `pending' branch can be a bit disturbing,
> as you are switching roles, and if someone does not notice it, he can
> commit to the "new" `trunk' something intended for the "old" trunk.
trunk wouldn't take the role of the pending branch: it would take the
content of the pending branch but keep its role of "where development is
focused", so I don't think there's any problem. It matches previous CVS
pratice in this regard.
> In the future, I suggest creating branches with a name that conveys its
> purpose (trunk can be the perennial development branch, then we would
> have `emacs-XX.X', etc) and keep those names forever. This requires
> almost no housekeeping on the developers part, except for cloning
> emacs-XX.X when it is created, which is much simpler than adjusting
> branch references.
When I tried to do that, I bumped into the problem that I can't have
a symlink "trunk" pointing to the "emacs-23" branch (because
bzr.sv.gnu.org's http server doesn't honor symlinks).
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-01-28 22:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-01-28 2:37 New branch Stefan Monnier
2010-01-28 5:40 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-01-28 19:13 ` Stefan Monnier
2010-01-28 19:41 ` Óscar Fuentes
2010-01-28 20:12 ` Chong Yidong
2010-01-28 21:08 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-01-28 22:53 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2010-01-28 23:22 ` Óscar Fuentes
2010-01-29 1:55 ` Stefan Monnier
2010-01-29 4:24 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2010-01-29 5:13 ` Stefan Monnier
2010-02-03 1:05 ` Kenichi Handa
2010-02-03 2:31 ` Stefan Monnier
2010-02-03 4:24 ` Kenichi Handa
2010-02-03 14:20 ` Stefan Monnier
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