Re: fast-forward only policy

[Felipe Contreras <felipe contreras gmail com>]

On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 11:18 PM, Behdad Esfahbod <behdad behdad org> wrote:
> On 05/05/2009 04:12 PM, Felipe Contreras wrote:
>>
>> On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 11:00 PM, Behdad Esfahbod
>> <behdad esfahbod gmail com>  wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> case that's not a compelling argument; you can still have branches
>>>>> '1-2' and 'gnome-2-26'.
>>>
>>> Quick note.  If we're going to have short branch names (as I'm planning
>>> to
>>> use for pango), it should be "1.2", not "1-2".
>>
>> Yeap, IMHO pango-1-2<  1-2<  1.2<  stable
>
> It's nice to have "stable", but we need a fixed name for those branches too.
> I'd love to see "stable" always be an alias for the latest stable branch,
> but that doesn't obviate the need for "1.2" or pango-1-2.

Yes, if you *must* have a branch for each single stable major release
you have, then it would be nice to have another branch (pointer) to
the latest one.

However, why do you need a "1.2" branch when you already have a PANGO_1_2_4 tag?

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Felipe Contreras