From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LyKPM-00036N-Ot for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 27 Apr 2009 02:33:40 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LyKPI-00033D-1D for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 27 Apr 2009 02:33:40 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=38044 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LyKPH-000336-Ry for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 27 Apr 2009 02:33:35 -0400 Received: from mx2.redhat.com ([66.187.237.31]:41534) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LyKPH-0008LP-Av for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 27 Apr 2009 02:33:35 -0400 Message-ID: <49F551BE.9060907@redhat.com> Date: Mon, 27 Apr 2009 09:33:34 +0300 From: Avi Kivity MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] branch and tag names References: <49F4A162.4000604@redhat.com> <49F4BAB7.3010501@codemonkey.ws> <8B2E6405-6772-474F-9B8F-DB1A1689CA2D@web.de> In-Reply-To: <8B2E6405-6772-474F-9B8F-DB1A1689CA2D@web.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Andreas_F=E4rber?= Cc: "qemu-devel@nongnu.org" Andreas F=E4rber wrote: > > I don't see the point of having stable/0.10 though. Why do we need=20 > multiple stable? stable will be branched as v0.10.x, then after the=20 > last 0.10.x release, stable can be hard-reset to master and branched=20 > as v0.11.x when ready, and so on. > Repurposing branches is evil. Someone regularly pulls for stable, one=20 day it changes to something completely different. Curses. --=20 Do not meddle in the internals of kernels, for they are subtle and quick = to panic.