On 30/03/07, Wes Hardaker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I *do* look through older code sometimes and do diffs against > versions and frequently try to find what releases a particular code > version was in, or...
I fully recognise the value of that sort of history (not least because I also frequently need to check what code looked like in a particular release.) Which is why I explicitly proposed keeping every single release checkpoint. But I doubt that there is the same need to refer back to the status of *pre-release* code (which are very much interim checkpoints). Similarly, there are various tags in the '/tags' tree which seem to refer to the merging of significant code changes. That's a perfectly reasonable short-term use of a change-control system, but it's got nothing whatsoever to do with release checkpoints. Again, there are a number of tags under the '/branches' tree which seem to refer to the merging of specific code changes (e.g. the various Xxx-3-1-2-1 branches). I'm sure this was a sensible way of dealing with multiple incoming (and potentially incompatible) bug reports at the time, but it's completely separate from the main Vx-y-patches usage. Be honest, Wes - when was the last time you looked at anything more than (say) 2 years old, other than /branches/...-patches or /tags/Ext-x-y-z ? And even some of the /branches/...-patches lines don't really belong there. What is the purpose of 'V5-3-0-patches, for example? And how does this relate to V5-3-patches? They have very similar names, but I don't believe that they perform similar functions. (Or else I'm even more out of touch with the organisation of this project than I thought I was!) I don't really care whether we delete any obsolete branches or tag checkpoints - or simply move them elsewhere. (As long as this is somewhere *outside* the /tags or /branches tree) But I do find the current mishmash to be extremely unhelpful. Dave ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Net-snmp-coders mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/net-snmp-coders
