On 2014-08-15 22:40-0700 Alan W. Irwin wrote: > I do agree removal of all these weird (from the git point of view) > branches is an excellent future goal so long as we have a fool-proof > permanent way to resurrect those branches (even just for the purpose > of understanding the early history of PLplot if someone becomes > interested in that down the road). > > So is there such a method? For example, I asked before whether > specially named tags (e.g., "historical_subversion_branch_test_cmake") > constituted a permanent record that could be used as the basis of a > fool-proof method of resurrecting all deleted subversion branches.
It turns out the answer to that git question is tags are not a permanent record since they can be deleted (just had my first look at "git help tag" after reading the Pro Git explanation of tags too fast). So maybe a file documenting the deleted branches sufficiently to be able to resurrect them is the way to go? Ideas from the git gurus, please. Alan __________________________ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria (astrowww.phys.uvic.ca). Programming affiliations with the FreeEOS equation-of-state implementation for stellar interiors (freeeos.sf.net); the Time Ephemerides project (timeephem.sf.net); PLplot scientific plotting software package (plplot.sf.net); the libLASi project (unifont.org/lasi); the Loads of Linux Links project (loll.sf.net); and the Linux Brochure Project (lbproject.sf.net). __________________________ Linux-powered Science __________________________ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Plplot-devel mailing list Plplot-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/plplot-devel
