Re: [PHP-DEV] Cleaning 5.3 git branches ?
[email protected] (Andrea Faulds)
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On 28 Aug 2014, at 23:44, Johannes Schlüter <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, 2014-08-29 at 01:34 +0300, Andrey Andreev wrote: > >> Tags preserve history well enough, as previously noted - they are >> basically immutable branches. This looks like a no-brainer to me. > > This is not exactly true - we have cases where where, for whatever > reason, commits were made after the tag. i.e. I recently got the request > to add some CVE IDs to the NEWS file in 5.3 just for having them > documented in VCS. > > I'd say it's trivial to create the historic repo and that will certainly > keep all history. I don’t see the need, though. For cases where we added stuff after release, just make an extra tag. -- Andrea Faulds http://ajf.me/