From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 6767 invoked by alias); 5 Mar 2003 17:06:25 -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 6759 invoked from network); 5 Mar 2003 17:06:24 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO localhost.redhat.com) (172.16.49.200) by 172.16.49.205 with SMTP; 5 Mar 2003 17:06:24 -0000 Received: from redhat.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by localhost.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id DADAB2A9C; Wed, 5 Mar 2003 12:06:21 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <3E662E8D.8010609@redhat.com> Date: Wed, 05 Mar 2003 17:06:00 -0000 From: Andrew Cagney User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; NetBSD macppc; en-US; rv:1.0.2) Gecko/20030223 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gdb@sources.redhat.com Cc: Michal Ludvig Subject: Re: [maint] Guidelines for experimental branches References: <3E63E3D3.6070401@redhat.com> <3E648828.3080502@suse.cz> <3E65D253.8050508@suse.cz> <1046877245.1027.4.camel@shadowfax> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2003-03/txt/msg00101.txt.bz2 > On Wed, 2003-03-05 at 05:32, Michal Ludvig wrote: > > >> So, could we say, that the date in there it optional? >> > > Yes, of course. I was only rationalizing why would you want to have it > in the branch name. It's a recommendation. The experience I've had matches diego - having to abandon old branches and cut new ones (just a shame that CVS doesn't have branch aliases). Andrew PS: If nothing else, the date is a daily reminder of how old the branch is :-)