Re: [RFC] Removing obsolete branch 'branch-1-10'

[Stefano Lattarini]

On 02/14/2012 08:18 PM, Stefano Lattarini wrote:
> Hi Eric.
> 
> On 02/14/2012 04:07 PM, Eric Blake wrote:
>> On 02/14/2012 05:30 AM, Stefano Lattarini wrote:
>>> The branch 'branch-1-10' is long obsolete, and only has the following
>>> commit on the top of the 'v1.10.3' tag:
>>>
>>
>>>
>>> I thus think it's safe to remove it.  Objections?  I will proceed to the
>>> removal in 48 hours or so if there is no objection by then.
>>
>> Is there _any_ chance that there might be a distro out there that is
>> basing backported patches on top of branch-1-10?
>>
> Even if this happens, they could simply rebase the work on a new branch off
> of the v1.10.3 tag, no?  As I've noted in my message, the only difference
> between the commit that tags point to and the tip of branch-1-10 is that the
> latter has been updated to have a version of '1.10.3a' instead of '1.10.3'.
> 
As I've seen no rebuttal of this reasoning of mine, I've proceeded to delete
the 'branch-1-10' branch.

Regards,
  Stefano