From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Junio C Hamano Subject: [poll] does anybody depend on RelNotes being a symbolic link? Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2015 14:23:55 -0800 Message-ID: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain To: git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Wed Feb 11 23:24:07 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1YLfhW-0004MV-3J for gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org; Wed, 11 Feb 2015 23:24:06 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754697AbbBKWX7 (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 Feb 2015 17:23:59 -0500 Received: from pb-smtp1.int.icgroup.com ([208.72.237.35]:57036 "EHLO sasl.smtp.pobox.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754670AbbBKWX6 (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 Feb 2015 17:23:58 -0500 Received: from sasl.smtp.pobox.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by pb-smtp1.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id EED4D3811D; Wed, 11 Feb 2015 17:23:57 -0500 (EST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed; d=pobox.com; h=from:to :subject:date:message-id:mime-version:content-type; s=sasl; bh=v Asno/l0NY9gKFaAhxbA/a7twnI=; b=bzZ6pv7NfOilnRPs3GE8M6zgc1T8DgwTr cNXUwobYIrWX4Oclfbubmm8m9ePnnnUWusDEbBDWxo5yP31s2fDSlcXu1vTqcVtm EBE+yVPv9UXNb27hBaqucTV/IbsA4ChhpoH5XGbMMFcxNw/gScbq59hKO1p7udRK AhztN400nE= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=pobox.com; h=from:to:subject :date:message-id:mime-version:content-type; q=dns; s=sasl; b=Abd 3t0YHFfegcXqsJv1cIwQYl9jeDR7XMtm0JlN8vGdv1PX26JE+1ZhYnrh79+znsZV SIQLP+Rbzh71/xK2bcf78a6bUZgYbtcUmhR11bPH+756+WDr85KJ3svjeISprePN K68E4vIOhQ2Acxn3DYsZvALfbJ7RLvLhNcLTnHzY= Received: from pb-smtp1.int.icgroup.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by pb-smtp1.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id E5E1B3811C; Wed, 11 Feb 2015 17:23:57 -0500 (EST) Received: from pobox.com (unknown [72.14.226.9]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pb-smtp1.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 552B33811B; Wed, 11 Feb 2015 17:23:57 -0500 (EST) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux) X-Pobox-Relay-ID: AB883166-B23C-11E4-8B27-A4119F42C9D4-77302942!pb-smtp1.pobox.com Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: I am wondering if I can turn the top-level RelNotes symbolic link into a regular file. The benefit for doing that is that I can start the file like so: Git ???? Release Notes ====================== Updates since v2.3 early in the cycle and then later decide if we want to make the next one 3.0 or 2.4. And then just after the release, I move it down to Documentation/RelNotes/3.0.0.txt (or 2.4.0.txt) and start the next cycle. One thing that worries me is that people and their build scripts might depend on being able to figure out the upcoming release name by reading the symbolic link, assuming that the link would point to Documentation/RelNotes/x.y.z.txt, and such a change ends up breaking their setup. I am not sure how likely this would be. Objections? Also any other objections, other possible cause of breakages I may have missed?