From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Thien-Thi Nguyen 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 14:37:02 +0100 Message-ID: <87y6hfgq69.fsf@ambire.localdomain> References: <87hbot146m.fsf@gnu.org> <877hpnwyqo.fsf@ossau.uklinux.net> <87fx3ngbyt.fsf@ossau.uklinux.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1269637406 4602 80.91.229.12 (26 Mar 2010 21:03:26 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 26 Mar 2010 21:03:26 +0000 (UTC) To: guile-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Mar 26 22:03:22 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 1NvGgb-0003dg-TJ for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 26 Mar 2010 22:03:22 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:45829 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NvGaC-0003gF-Pn for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 26 Mar 2010 16:56:44 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NvG9B-0004qS-Nb for guile-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 26 Mar 2010 16:28:50 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=46789 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NvG99-0004gj-05 for guile-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 26 Mar 2010 16:28:48 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NvG4n-0000MY-NV for guile-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 26 Mar 2010 16:24:19 -0400 Original-Received: from host84-37-dynamic.24-79-r.retail.telecomitalia.it ([79.24.37.84]:35720 helo=ambire.localdomain) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NvG4n-0000Lx-Fr for guile-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 26 Mar 2010 16:24:17 -0400 Original-Received: from ttn by ambire.localdomain with local (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1Nv9ig-0000Oy-G5 for guile-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 26 Mar 2010 14:37:02 +0100 In-Reply-To: (Andy Wingo's message of "Fri, 26 Mar 2010 13:07:24 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1.91 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. 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:10087 Archived-At: () Andy Wingo () Fri, 26 Mar 2010 13:07:24 +0100 On Fri 26 Mar 2010 01:31, Neil Jerram writes: > Is there a nice way of marking a branch as obsolete/historical, or of > adding an explanatory note to it? I don't know. It would only be for purposes of gitweb/cgit, I don't think git has this concept. Perhaps "git tag" with some kind of conventional prefix? E.g., $ { date -u +"%F %T UTC" ; echo ; } > TMP $ cat >>TMP <. If you delete it, someone might complain. If you add to it, you probably are confused. EOF $ git tag -F TMP BRANCH-NAME-nb This way one can easily ignore *-nb tags. Using a suffix ensures that the tag hierarchy mirrors the branch hierarchy (if any). thi