() Andy Wingo <wi...@pobox.com>
() Fri, 26 Mar 2010 13:07:24 +0100
On Fri 26 Mar 2010 01:31, Neil Jerram <n...@ossau.uklinux.net> writes:
> Is there a nice way of marking a branch as obsolete/historical, or of
> adding an explanatory note to it?
I don't know. It would only be for purposes of gitweb/cgit, I don't
think git has this concept.
Perhaps "git tag" with some kind of conventional prefix? E.g.,
$ { date -u +"%F %T UTC" ; echo ; } > TMP
$ cat >>TMP <<EOF
This branch is live|dead|zombified|historic|pickled|putrescent|etc.
We keep it around because <explanation>.
If you delete it, someone might complain.
If you add to it, you probably are confused.
EOF
$ git tag -F TMP BRANCH-NAME-nb
This way one can easily ignore *-nb tags. Using a suffix ensures
that the tag hierarchy mirrors the branch hierarchy (if any).
thi
