From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 21609 invoked by alias); 5 Mar 2003 10:32:53 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 21600 invoked from network); 5 Mar 2003 10:32:52 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO kerberos.suse.cz) (195.47.106.10) by 172.16.49.205 with SMTP; 5 Mar 2003 10:32:52 -0000 Received: from chimera.suse.cz (chimera.suse.cz [10.20.0.2]) by kerberos.suse.cz (SuSE SMTP server) with ESMTP id 599C159D351; Wed, 5 Mar 2003 11:32:51 +0100 (CET) Received: from suse.cz (naga.suse.cz [10.20.1.16]) by chimera.suse.cz (8.11.0/8.11.0/SuSE Linux 8.11.0-0.4) with ESMTP id h25AWp414487; Wed, 5 Mar 2003 11:32:51 +0100 X-Authentication-Warning: chimera.suse.cz: Host naga.suse.cz [10.20.1.16] claimed to be suse.cz Message-ID: <3E65D253.8050508@suse.cz> Date: Wed, 05 Mar 2003 10:32:00 -0000 From: Michal Ludvig Organization: SuSE CR User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20021130 X-Accept-Language: cs, cz, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Diego Novillo Cc: gdb@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: [maint] Guidelines for experimental branches References: <3E63E3D3.6070401@redhat.com> <3E648828.3080502@suse.cz> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2003-03/txt/msg00093.txt.bz2 Diego Novillo wrote: > In article <3E648828.3080502@suse.cz>, Michal Ludvig wrote: > >>Is it necessary to have the date in the name of the branch? IMHO it's >>fine for the branchpoint, as well as for mergepoints, but for the branch >>itself it's useless. People could much better remember words than >>8-digits chunks and having to look on the webpage everytime, when I want >>to check out a branch is boring. > > If the branch is long lived, you may want to re-create it more than once > for performance reasons. As you get farther and farther from the > branchpoint, CVS operations get increasingly slower. If dates are too > long, you could also use 2-3 digit numbers. So, could we say, that the date in there it optional? Michal Ludvig -- * SuSE CR, s.r.o * mludvig@suse.cz * (+420) 296.545.373 * http://www.suse.cz