Re: GOP-PROP 11: git repositories (probable decision)

[Francisco Vila]

2011/9/15 Janek Warchoł <address@hidden>:
> 2011/9/15 Graham Percival <address@hidden>:
>> ** Unchanged branches
>> (...)
>>  stable/*
>
> I'm wondering if we can get rid of them, but i'm not sure about one
> thing: are they just a point in our history, i.e.
> <first commit> ... (lots of commits) ...<2.x stable release commit>
> ... (lots of commits) ... <current master>?

No.  That looks like a tag in a branch.

> Or are they true branches, i.e. not a subset of master?

Yes. Branches are not subsets.  They keep independent histories.

> In the first case maybe we could just use git tags? (or is my question
> stupid because we are already using them?)

Yes we are already using them, No tags and branches do not provide
similar features, and No your question is not stupid.

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