Re: git branch strategy after 1.11

2009-03-24 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Sunday 2009-03-22 12:23, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: Hello everyone, just to let you know, after 1.11 I intend to change the branch setup a bit. When branch-1-11 is created, I will also create a branch maint, which will then receive bug fixes appropriate for both 1.11.x and 1.11a. The maint

Re: git branch strategy after 1.11

2009-03-24 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hi Jan, * Jan Engelhardt wrote on Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 08:56:08AM CET: On Sunday 2009-03-22 12:23, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: just to let you know, after 1.11 I intend to change the branch setup a bit. When branch-1-11 is created, I will also create a branch maint, which will then receive bug

Re: git branch strategy after 1.11

2009-03-24 Thread Jan Engelhardt
Hi Ralf, On Tuesday 2009-03-24 22:48, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: And: once branch-1.11 development finally ceases, it can be deleted. This works because the commits remain reachable via the release tags. If necessary, the branch pointer can simply be recreated. What would be the advantage of

Re: git branch strategy after 1.11

2009-03-24 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
* Jan Engelhardt wrote on Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 11:01:02PM CET: On Tuesday 2009-03-24 22:48, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: And: once branch-1.11 development finally ceases, it can be deleted. This works because the commits remain reachable via the release tags. If necessary, the branch pointer

git branch strategy after 1.11

2009-03-22 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hello everyone, just to let you know, after 1.11 I intend to change the branch setup a bit. When branch-1-11 is created, I will also create a branch maint, which will then receive bug fixes appropriate for both 1.11.x and 1.11a. The maint branch will then be merged regularly (most likely after