From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Cc: Brian Gernhardt <benji@silverinsanity.com>,
Russ Dill <russ.dill@gmail.com>,
"Stephen Sinclair" <radarsat1@gmail.com>,
git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: branch description
Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2008 22:27:51 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7vfxtmtlm0.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m3abjushvs.fsf@localhost.localdomain> (Jakub Narebski's message of "Tue, 15 Apr 2008 18:33:48 -0700 (PDT)")
Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com> writes:
> Please, let's don't repeat Mercurial mistake of placing unversioned
> information (such as branch names in case of Mercurial, or branches
> descriptions in this case) in-tree, i.e. version it.
Is it really a "mistake" in Mercurial's context?
I thought that their named branches do have defined "starting point", and
it is not a mistake at all for them to version "from this point on, this
lineage of history is associated with this symbolic name (which is a
branch)".
It probably does not make sense in the context of git where a branch is
defined to be "illusion" (at least currently).
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-04-16 5:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-04-15 16:51 branch description Stephen Sinclair
2008-04-15 17:31 ` Russ Dill
2008-04-15 18:01 ` Brian Gernhardt
2008-04-15 19:12 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-04-15 19:19 ` Jeff King
2008-04-15 22:37 ` Jeff King
2008-04-15 22:56 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-04-15 20:53 ` Stephen Sinclair
2008-04-15 21:04 ` Brian Gernhardt
2008-04-16 1:33 ` Jakub Narebski
2008-04-16 2:55 ` Jeff King
2008-04-16 3:28 ` Stephen Sinclair
2008-04-16 5:55 ` Mike Hommey
2008-04-16 3:46 ` Matt Graham
2008-04-16 8:29 ` Johan Herland
2008-04-18 21:58 ` Jakub Narebski
2008-04-19 9:18 ` Johan Herland
2008-04-19 17:43 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-04-19 18:09 ` Johan Herland
2008-04-19 21:05 ` Jakub Narebski
2008-04-16 5:27 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2008-04-16 19:56 ` Jakub Narebski
2008-04-15 18:36 ` Jakub Narebski
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2008-04-22 17:57 Michael Dressel
2008-04-22 18:46 ` Johan Herland
2008-04-22 18:59 ` Jakub Narebski
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