From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/80520 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: John Wiegley Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: *bump* again Date: Sat, 05 Nov 2011 05:09:02 -0500 Message-ID: References: <1318133487-45386-1-git-send-email-dave@boostpro.com> <82botobfzu.fsf@gmail.com> <87bosr7tx0.fsf@dod.no> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1320487797 8316 80.91.229.12 (5 Nov 2011 10:09:57 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 5 Nov 2011 10:09:57 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M28803@lists.math.uh.edu Sat Nov 05 11:09:48 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: ding-account@gmane.org Original-Received: from util0.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.18]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RMdC4-00049f-46 for ding-account@gmane.org; Sat, 05 Nov 2011 11:09:44 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by util0.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1RMdBu-0007Xq-Q5; Sat, 05 Nov 2011 05:09:34 -0500 Original-Received: from mx1.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.32]) by util0.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1RMdBt-0007Xb-MC for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Sat, 05 Nov 2011 05:09:33 -0500 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx1.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1RMdBs-0006wy-Kw for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Sat, 05 Nov 2011 05:09:33 -0500 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1RMdBr-0006gu-9X for ding@gnus.org; Sat, 05 Nov 2011 11:09:31 +0100 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RMdBr-00042X-18 for ding@gnus.org; Sat, 05 Nov 2011 11:09:31 +0100 Original-Received: from c-98-215-105-167.hsd1.il.comcast.net ([98.215.105.167]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 05 Nov 2011 11:09:31 +0100 Original-Received: from jwiegley by c-98-215-105-167.hsd1.il.comcast.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 05 Nov 2011 11:09:31 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 17 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: c-98-215-105-167.hsd1.il.comcast.net User-Agent: Gnus/5.110018 (No Gnus v0.18) Emacs/23.3 (darwin) Cancel-Lock: sha1:LFTIBuOZh4yrnuVNUrE65wYDk6o= X-Spam-Score: -5.2 (-----) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:80520 Archived-At: >>>>> Dave Abrahams writes: >> AFAIK other than being the name of the branch created by default, when >> creating a new git repo, there's nothing special with the master branch >> compared with any other tracking branch. > True, but you're missing my point, which is that it's better to branch for > release rather than forcing work to come to a screeching halt on the main > development/integration branch (be it "master" or a branch with some other > name). Creating a new branch to stand in for the usual > development/integration branch when you're in a release feature freeze is > awkward, because then everyone doing active development needs to change > their view of the world. +1 John