Re: [Qemu-devel] branch and tag names

[Andreas Färber]

Am 27.04.2009 um 08:33 schrieb Avi Kivity:

> Andreas Färber wrote:
> > I don't see the point of having stable/0.10 though. Why do we need  
> > multiple stable? stable will be branched as v0.10.x, then after the  
> > last 0.10.x release, stable can be hard-reset to master and  
> > branched as v0.11.x when ready, and so on.
>
> Repurposing branches is evil.  Someone regularly pulls for stable,  
> one day it changes to something completely different.  Curses.

Hm, I was rather thinking of a *user* wanting to have the latest  
stable code. If she works on stable/0.10, the code'll start to bitrot  
some day and she'll have to find out what the name of the newest  
stable branch is.

Git itself has maint, next and master, plus the tagged versions.
http://repo.or.cz/w/git.git
maint would correspond to 0.10.x, next to 0.11.x-to-be.

I would've thought all the unused branches in SVN would stem from the  
enforcement of tagging from a branch and them not being visible to the  
average user from a day-to-day command such as `git branch`.

Andreas