[haiku-development] Re: Haiku git migration status?

  • From: Truls Becken <truls.becken@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Mon, 8 Aug 2011 14:55:20 +0200

On Mon, Aug 8, 2011 at 11:22, Simon Taylor <simontaylor1@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Not that I want to continue something unproductive, but the A3 process
> switched me from firmly in the camp of revision numbers being important to
> the opposite opinion.
>
> Lots of bug-fixes were being committed to trunk, but as the nightlies were
> only coming from the A3 branch, it was pretty difficult to tell if a
> particular nightly had a fix included. This led to some confusion in bug
> reports on trac IIRC. I expect the git switch will lead to more independent
> branches (I entirely missed all of Ingo's recent package management stuff as
> it wasn't showing up on the commits list) which might make that kind of
> confusion more common.

Could this be avoided by not allowing branches in the main repository?
Or by assigning revision tags only in trunk, not for commits in branches?

-Truls

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