Re: [Cdk-devel] Branches getting chaotic

[Stefan K. <ste...@eb...>]

On Wednesday 14 January 2009 09:18:41 Egon Willighagen wrote:
> On 1/13/09, Stefan Kuhn <ste...@eb...> wrote:
> > Therefore I suggest
> >  the following: After a merge some nominal change is done and a commit
> > message including [MERGED] is committed. If the branch, for some reason,
> > sees further development, this will disappear. What do you think?
>
> I'd rather see that last commit use to delete the branch from the
> repository.
That would be an option too, but we would loose history then.
>
> I do not think making functional changes *after* is helping the
> merging, and would discourage that; instead, I'd prefer people make a
> new branch, fresh from trunk or cdk-1.2.x/....
>
> Egon



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