On 16 December 2010 15:19, Aaron Bentley <[email protected]> wrote: > On 10-12-15 10:55 PM, Martin Pool wrote: >>> I used to re-use branches, (remember bzr.ab?) but with Launchpad, you're >>> just fighting against the design when you do that. So you may wish to >>> reconsider that practice. >> >> You may be right. >> >> My case is actually a bit different which is that I do have stubby >> feature branches, I just reuse their names. ie I pull from trunk into >> doc, then I do a doc fix. > > - From Launchpad's perspective, you haven't got a new branch-- you've just > changed the contents of an existing branch. If you go and delete the > branch in Launchpad, then when you reuse the name, it really will behave > like a new branch.
I know. I'm just making the distinction between a long-lived branch that merges from trunk, and one that intermittently pulls from trunk. They will hit different problems; I think the first is generally worse. (For instance it's mps will I think always be growing in length.) -- Martin _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~launchpad-dev Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~launchpad-dev More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
