[bt-devel] New stable-2.7 branch

[Martin Gruner]

Hi Jaak,

I agree with all changes that you proposed. Please execute them.

Can you explain to me Git newbie please what the 'shared history' means,
and why the other branches do not have that? Is that a problem of the
SVN import?

Regards, mg

Am 23.08.10 19:51, schrieb Jaak Ristioja:
> Hello!
>
> I just pushed a new "stable-2.7" branch to gitorious. It is almost the
> same as "bugfix-2-7", but it has a better name :) and shares a common
> history with "master". I have experienced that this makes it easier for
> us to backport (cherry-pick) bugfixes. In the future our git branches
> (those not imported from SVN) branches will not have this issue.
>
> Martin, I ask you to please consider the following:
> 1) please keep branch "stable-2.7" and delete branch "bugfix-2-7"
>    which has a weird version number (2-7) and has no shared history
>    with branch "master".
> 2) please lets rename all remaining "bugfix-2-#" branches to
>    "stable-2.#" and continue with this name scheme.
>
> Best wishes,
> Jaak

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