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From: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
To: Brian Foster <brian.foster@maxim-ic.com>
Cc: Hallvard Breien Furuseth <h.b.furuseth@usit.uio.no>,
	git mailing list <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [Q] Branch aliases (synonyms)?
Date: Tue, 03 Jul 2012 17:29:26 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4FF30FD6.6020501@alum.mit.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4261222.bYBuBBxnOa@laclwks004>

On 07/03/2012 03:40 PM, Brian Foster wrote:
> On Tuesday 03-July-2012 05:23:29 Hallvard Breien Furuseth wrote:
>>              E.g. if it's hard to teach developers to switch
>>   from B to A, a hook which rejects pushes to B might help.
>
>   Whilst we _may_ have problems with some of the
>   internal developers (this can be managed so I'm
>   not worried about it), the concern is about the
>   external users (clients who clone but never push)
>   becoming confused.  Hence the requirement about
>   continuing to use the same branch name as you are
>   used to using.  That's it!  It's that simple.

Maybe create a new branch B (an orphan commit unconnected to the old 
branch B) with a single README file telling the person that from now on 
they should be using branch A.

Michael

-- 
Michael Haggerty
mhagger@alum.mit.edu

  reply	other threads:[~2012-07-03 15:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-07-03 10:39 [Q] Branch aliases (synonyms)? Brian Foster
2012-07-03 12:23 ` Hallvard Breien Furuseth
2012-07-03 12:36   ` Hallvard Breien Furuseth
2012-07-03 13:40   ` Brian Foster
2012-07-03 15:29     ` Michael Haggerty [this message]
2012-07-04  7:31       ` Brian Foster
2012-07-05  7:06         ` Brian Foster
2012-07-03 16:22     ` Johan Herland
2012-07-03 17:49       ` Hallvard Breien Furuseth
2012-07-04  7:24         ` Brian Foster
2012-07-04  9:55           ` Hallvard Breien Furuseth

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