Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Working out a branching scheme [was: tag --seal --fix]

[Aaron Bentley]

Juliusz Chroboczek wrote:
> I guess what I'm trying to achieve is something equivalent to cvs
> symbolic tags, which I'm used to.  If you see better ways of doing
> that, I'm all ears.

Here's how I like to do it:

foo--devel--0 ----------------------------------------------->
               |                           |
               foo--release--0.7------     foo--release--0.8
                   |      |          |           |
                  0.7.1  0.7.2      0.7.3       0.8.1

i.e., release is a real, live, branch (which is *good* in Arch).

The number on the end of devel would still be 0 even if you were doing 
foo--release--3.1.

Changes made in release get merged back into devel (which is usually 
easy in Arch).  I didn't show that.  (Merging devel to release is rare.)

Every time you change the third number, that's cause for a tag.

But that's just my approach.  Everyone has their own approach.

Aaron
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