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From: Philip Balister <philip@balister.org>
To: openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org
Subject: Re: release-2010.12 branch ready for testing
Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2010 09:34:48 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4CE6B538.6050801@balister.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20101119144425.GC3411@jama>

On 11/19/2010 06:44 AM, Martin Jansa wrote:
....


> I think that short-lived branch is better, because every testing branch
> had few easy-to-fix issues which were fixed almost immediately in .dev
> after testing branched and it would be hard to choose which branch was best.
>
> But tag from any testing branch + first few quick fixes would be almost as
> good as based on any other testing branch.
>
> And I also agree with Phil that this short lived branch should be
> removed when the tag is created (to show that it's final state without
> maintainance).

I also think a *short lived* branch is a good route to try. I've been 
thinking about how the git history looks of a tag after you delete the 
branch leading up to it.

For emphasis, the short lived branch will not be used to maintain the tag.

Philip



  reply	other threads:[~2010-11-19 17:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-11-18 21:27 release-2010.12 branch ready for testing Khem Raj
2010-11-19  8:38 ` Frans Meulenbroeks
2010-11-19 10:34 ` Koen Kooi
2010-11-19 13:46   ` Tom Rini
2010-11-19 14:16     ` Koen Kooi
2010-11-19 14:44       ` Martin Jansa
2010-11-19 17:34         ` Philip Balister [this message]
2010-11-21  2:48           ` Khem Raj
2010-11-19 18:21       ` Khem Raj

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