To branch or not to branch

Dean Sas dean at deansas.org
Sun Apr 9 12:06:59 UTC 2006


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Dean Sas wrote:
> Matthew East wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> About this time last release cycle we branched the repo. Are we going to
>>> do it again? I don't really know much about this, so I'm cc:ing Daniel.
>>>
>>> I suppose we should go for it if people want to crack on and start doing
>>> some dapper+1 docs action in the repo. Also, it would save us from
>>> uploading translations to trunk and cleaning them afterwards.
>>> Disadvantages might include having to merge back any post-freeze fixes
>>> done in the branch (or alternatively do the fixes in both places at the
>>> same time).
> 
> Surely we should branch, if nothing else then it's easier to look back
> and see how things were at Dapper freeze/release. Forward/back porting
> surely isn't that much extra effort, and if people can do it with
> software I'm sure we can do it with xml.
> 
> Maybe the best point in time to branch is upon freeze. +1 for branching
> anyway.
> 
> dsas
> 

Just replying to use the correct mail address for Daniel.
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