Hi Dave,

Tags and named branches serve a different purposes, and we take
advantage of them both.  Tags identify a commit somewhere in the
history that does not change, such as the "v4.0.0" tag.  Named
branches are also identifiers, but they reference the tip of a branch,
which is typically a moving target.  Examples include the shared
"master" and "release" named branches or the temporary named branches
used for topic development.

Matt

On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 9:45 AM, David M. Welch <[email protected]> wrote:
> I'm showing my ignorance here, but what's the advantage of having tags over
> branches?  Branches have always seemed to me to be easier and more
> intuitive, so now I'm intrigued… ;-)
>
> Cheers,
> Dave
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> From: Bradley Lowekamp <[email protected]>
> Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2012 11:03:45 -0400
> To: Matt McCormick <[email protected]>
> Cc: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>, ITK
> <[email protected]>, Vivien Delmon
> <[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: [Insight-users] [Insight-developers] Maintenance branch for the
> 3.20 series
>
> As we have a release and not a maint branch I also prefer "release-3.20".
>
> Brad
>
>
> On Apr 23, 2012, at 10:52 AM, Matt McCormick wrote:
>
> On Mon, Apr 23, 2012 at 9:46 AM, Brad King <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> On 4/23/2012 3:19 AM, Matt McCormick wrote:
>
>
> A patch has been submitted to build ITK 3.20.1 with GCC 4.7   Although
>
> there will not be any more feature releases for the 3-series, it would
>
> be good to start a branch for bug fixes.  What is a preferred name for
>
> this branch?  3-20-maint?
>
>
>
> http://www.itk.org/pipermail/insight-developers/2011-December/021000.html
>
>
> Thanks for the reminder ;-)
>
> My vote is for "release-3.20".
>
> Matt
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