From: Neil Jerram <neil@ossau.uklinux.net>
To: Thien-Thi Nguyen <ttn@gnuvola.org>
Cc: guile-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [Guile-commits] GNU Guile branch, wip-1-8-mingw-build, updated. release_1-8-7-22-g7edad77
Date: Fri, 26 Mar 2010 22:42:03 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ljde3dtw.fsf@ossau.uklinux.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87y6hfgq69.fsf@ambire.localdomain> (Thien-Thi Nguyen's message of "Fri, 26 Mar 2010 14:37:02 +0100")
Thien-Thi Nguyen <ttn@gnuvola.org> writes:
> Perhaps "git tag" with some kind of conventional prefix? E.g.,
>
> $ { date -u +"%F %T UTC" ; echo ; } > TMP
> $ cat >>TMP <<EOF
> This branch is live|dead|zombified|historic|pickled|putrescent|etc.
> We keep it around because <explanation>.
> If you delete it, someone might complain.
> If you add to it, you probably are confused.
> EOF
> $ git tag -F TMP BRANCH-NAME-nb
That's great, thanks.
I skipped the date, because git tags are dated anyway. And I preferred
a prefix "branch-notes/" than a suffix "-nb".
I think the result works very well in the web interface (at least
gitweb, I haven't tried cgit yet).
Regards,
Neil
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2010-03-06 22:22 ` [Guile-commits] GNU Guile branch, wip-1-8-mingw-build, updated. release_1-8-7-22-g7edad77 Ludovic Courtès
2010-03-07 22:30 ` Neil Jerram
2010-03-26 0:31 ` Neil Jerram
2010-03-26 12:07 ` Andy Wingo
2010-03-26 13:37 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2010-03-26 22:42 ` Neil Jerram [this message]
2010-03-26 22:17 ` Neil Jerram
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