+1 on all counts.
On Tue, Sep 10, 2013 at 1:59 PM, John Peterson <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> So Roy and I have been discussing deleting the release branches (v0.8.0,
> v0.9.1, etc) and keeping just the tags around.
>
> If you ever want to check out an old release, you always do e.g. 'git co
> v0.9.0' where "v0.9.0" is the name of a tag.
>
> There are a couple of reasons for doing this. One is that the output of
> 'git br -av' doesn't scale particularly well in the number of remote
> branches, another is that it lets the branches represent places where work
> is currently in progress and/or some action is currently required, rather
> than acting as labels for specific commits, which is really what tags are.
>
> Roy and I have also worked out a (possible, don't know if it's the best)
> way of backporting hotfixes onto old tags: basically you co the tag, create
> a temporary branch, commit the hotfix, tag it, delete the temporary local
> branch, and then push the tags to master.
>
> git co v0.9.2.2 (say v0.9.2.2 is an existing tag name)
> git br v0.9.2.3
> (commit hotfix)
> git tag -a v0.9.2.3 -m 'Hotfix for v0.9.2.2'
> git br -D v0.9.2.3
> git push --tags origin master
>
> I plan to go ahead with this in the next couple of days or so, just wanted
> to give everyone a chance to comment first.
>
> --
> John
>
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