From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: "Eric S. Raymond" <esr@thyrsus.com>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Should 'old-branches' and 'other-branches' be kept?
Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2014 09:01:44 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvlhxgbff9.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140212032344.GA20023@thyrsus.com> (Eric S. Raymond's message of "Tue, 11 Feb 2014 22:23:44 -0500")
> The dead branches complicate this process a *lot*, esoecially the part
> where I back up through the history looking for a ChangeLog entry marking
> the actual deletion point. I just figured out that the reason I've only
> found two real deletion points in sixteen tries is because the dead
> branches are getting in the way.
I don't understand why those branches make any difference, unless you're
trying to do your analysis also on those branches, which is
not worthwhile. Just preserve their info "as-is". The only important
part is that if someone wants to look at them he doesn't need to go back
to Bzr.
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-02-12 14:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-02-11 20:33 Should 'old-branches' and 'other-branches' be kept? Eric S. Raymond
2014-02-12 1:53 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-02-12 3:23 ` Eric S. Raymond
2014-02-12 14:01 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2014-02-12 14:30 ` Eric S. Raymond
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