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[Chris Pavlina <pavlina.chris@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Aug 22, 2016 at 09:57:26AM -0400, Wayne Stambaugh wrote:
> On 8/22/2016 9:53 AM, Clemens Koller wrote:
> > Hi, Wayne!
> > 
> > On 2016-08-22 14:09, Wayne Stambaugh wrote:
> >> I wasn't planning on migrating the stable 4 branch to git.  I'm hoping
> >> there wont be too many more 4 stable releases so I'm not sure it's worth
> >> the effort.
> > 
> > Ok, I was wondering...
> > I was missing the stable branch, too - as well as all the tags of the old
> > releases, etc. I personally don't need them, but it could be useful
> > and interesting to get all former references (r6994, rev 6994, 4.0.0-rc...)
> > migrated over to the git side once.
> 
> My one gripe about git is the commit hash tags.  They really are not
> very user friendly.  The tags you mention above are all in 4 stable
> branch so if you continue to use bzr for the stable 4 branch, you should
> not have any issues.  I will tag future stable versions in git when we
> get to that point so you will be able to use git tags in the same
> manner.  I'm not sure how maintaining a stable branch in git is going to
> work.  I'm guessing that it will be a completely separate repo like we
> do with bzr but I'm going to worry about that when the time comes.

As for the hashes not being user-friendly...well, that's what tags are
for! Commits aren't really sequential anyway, since you can do all sorts
of weird stuff with branching and merging, so bzr's sequential numbers
do start to fall apart once you do that. When you have code you think is
ready for public release, tag it!

We could even do a 'testing' series, where we move commits from devel
that are mostly okay, and tag a testing 'release' roughly weekly or so
with a simple incrementing version number - this would be a nice middle
ground between stable, which honestly starts to get a bit stale, and
devel which occasionally breaks.

This could even then be used as a staging ground for things to be
brought into the stable branch, allowing a somewhat smoother release
cadence.

Pardon me, I'm just daydreaming a bit... :)

> 
> > 
> > Regards,
> > 
> > Clemens
> > 
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