From: Stan Shebs <stanshebs@earthlink.net>
To: Nick Roberts <nickrob@snap.net.nz>
Cc: Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com>, gdb@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: DELAYED: GDB 6.7 branch creation scheduled June 25th
Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2007 20:14:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <467C2D83.70200@earthlink.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <18043.30976.871935.736190@kahikatea.snap.net.nz>
Nick Roberts wrote:
> > > These facts suggest to me that it's best to delay the branch, possibly by a
> > > month or two, not backdate it.
> >
> > As far as I am concerned, the fact that we use backdating is unrelated
> > to where we decide the branchpoint to be. I like backdating, because
> > it allows me to put the head in maintenance mode for a couple of days
> > while I work on the branch.
>
> You've lost me. I thought the branchpoint is where the branch was cut.
>
It is, but the branchpoint can just as easily be a past revision as the
current head. There's a lot to be said for branching from the
best-working version of the past week for instance, rather than from
whatever randomness is currently at the head of the trunk.
Stan
prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-06-22 20:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-06-08 6:18 GDB 6.7 branch creation scheduled June 10th Joel Brobecker
2007-06-08 6:39 ` Nick Roberts
2007-06-11 1:23 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2007-06-14 18:54 ` Thiago Jung Bauermann
2007-06-14 18:58 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2007-06-14 23:42 ` Joseph S. Myers
2007-06-21 18:13 ` DELAYED: GDB 6.7 branch creation scheduled June 25th Joel Brobecker
2007-06-21 18:22 ` H. J. Lu
2007-06-21 21:47 ` Nick Roberts
2007-06-22 1:39 ` Joel Brobecker
2007-06-22 7:23 ` Nick Roberts
2007-06-22 16:16 ` Joel Brobecker
2007-06-23 0:08 ` Nick Roberts
2007-06-23 0:34 ` Joel Brobecker
2007-06-23 0:58 ` Nick Roberts
2007-06-23 1:22 ` Joel Brobecker
2007-06-23 1:43 ` Nick Roberts
2007-06-23 4:44 ` Joel Brobecker
2007-06-24 0:44 ` Nick Roberts
2007-06-24 1:57 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2007-06-25 23:54 ` Joel Brobecker
2007-06-26 19:00 ` Joel Brobecker
2007-06-26 19:15 ` Markus Deuling
2007-06-23 12:33 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2007-06-22 20:14 ` Stan Shebs [this message]
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