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