From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Neil Jerram Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.devel 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 Message-ID: <87ljde3dtw.fsf@ossau.uklinux.net> References: <87hbot146m.fsf@gnu.org> <877hpnwyqo.fsf@ossau.uklinux.net> <87fx3ngbyt.fsf@ossau.uklinux.net> <87y6hfgq69.fsf@ambire.localdomain> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1269643692 25337 80.91.229.12 (26 Mar 2010 22:48:12 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 26 Mar 2010 22:48:12 +0000 (UTC) Cc: guile-devel@gnu.org To: Thien-Thi Nguyen Original-X-From: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Mar 26 23:48:05 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: guile-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NvIJv-0002sF-Ru for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 26 Mar 2010 23:48:04 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:42729 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NvIJv-0001kH-7u for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 26 Mar 2010 18:48:03 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NvIEl-0006tM-UL for guile-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 26 Mar 2010 18:42:43 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=56300 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NvIEg-0006s7-5G for guile-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 26 Mar 2010 18:42:43 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NvIEe-0002D4-J8 for guile-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 26 Mar 2010 18:42:38 -0400 Original-Received: from mail3.uklinux.net ([80.84.72.33]:41738) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NvIEe-0002Cs-BT for guile-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 26 Mar 2010 18:42:36 -0400 Original-Received: from arudy (host86-182-154-126.range86-182.btcentralplus.com [86.182.154.126]) by mail3.uklinux.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 86CE41F66E2; Fri, 26 Mar 2010 22:42:34 +0000 (GMT) Original-Received: from arudy (arudy [127.0.0.1]) by arudy (Postfix) with ESMTP id EB4D538023; Fri, 26 Mar 2010 22:42:03 +0000 (GMT) In-Reply-To: <87y6hfgq69.fsf@ambire.localdomain> (Thien-Thi Nguyen's message of "Fri, 26 Mar 2010 14:37:02 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.4-2.6 X-BeenThere: guile-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Developers list for Guile, the GNU extensibility library" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.lisp.guile.devel:10089 Archived-At: Thien-Thi Nguyen writes: > Perhaps "git tag" with some kind of conventional prefix? E.g., > > $ { date -u +"%F %T UTC" ; echo ; } > TMP > $ cat >>TMP < This branch is live|dead|zombified|historic|pickled|putrescent|etc. > We keep it around because . > 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