That's an interesting use case. Are you using gitpubsub instead of
svnpubsub for the site then?

On 10 June 2017 at 12:41, Dominik Psenner <[email protected]> wrote:

> We have also the site versioned in the same repository. Updates to the
> website do not necessarily synchronize well with the library releases. So
> this is a good example where the master branch is useful to track published
> website patches. In a wider sense, updates to the website are one kind of
> hot fix releases that do not bump the version of the library.
>
> Cheers,
> Dominik
>
> On 9 Jun 2017 11:02 p.m., "Matt Sicker" <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > Agreed. Whenever I've used git-flow in the past, the only reason we had a
> > develop and master branch was so that it was simpler to write hotfixes
> > against master later on. We'd delete our release branches after they were
> > tagged and merged to master&develop, so the only ways to find what's in
> > production are to either take the head of master or the highest numbered
> > tag name.
> >
> > On 9 June 2017 at 14:05, Gary Gregory <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > > I'm unlikely to do development on Log4jnet but I like having 'master'
> > > instead of 'develop' for the reason Julius stated.
> > >
> > > Gary
> > >
> > > On Fri, Jun 9, 2017 at 9:07 AM, Julius Davies <[email protected]>
> > > wrote:
> > >
> > > > Hi,
> > > >
> > > > The 'master' branch in the gitflow model is pointless (that state is
> > > > already tracked with the 'release/*' branches).   I say ditch the
> > > 'master'
> > > > branch and make 'develop' the default branch (e.g., the one that a
> > fresh
> > > > "git clone" automatically checks out).
> > > >
> > > > And rebase the short lived feature branches against develop before
> > > merging
> > > > them to make the history cleaner:
> > > >
> > > > git checkout feature/TKT-123
> > > > [do work...]
> > > > git fetch
> > > > git rebase origin/develop
> > > > git push --force-with-lease
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > (Honestly I prefer to rename 'develop' to 'master' because then it
> > > matches
> > > > the terminology of most git documentation and tutorials on the web).
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Sorry, drive by email.   I've been subscribed this email list for a
> > > decade
> > > > but I don't think I've ever posted before.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > yours,
> > > >
> > > > Julius
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > On Fri, Jun 9, 2017 at 8:12 AM, Dominik Psenner <[email protected]>
> > > > wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > Hi,
> > > > >
> > > > > On 2017-05-23 08:49, Stefan Bodewig wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > >> Please ensure github tracks develop as the default branch when the
> > > vote
> > > > >> passes.
> > > > >>
> > > > >
> > > > > I just filed an issue on INFRA to make this happen. This is the
> > ticket
> > > > for
> > > > > it:
> > > > >
> > > > > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/INFRA-14316
> > > > >
> > > > > Cheers,
> > > > > Dominik
> > > > >
> > > >
> > >
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > Matt Sicker <[email protected]>
> >
>



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