Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:76936 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 93720 invoked from network); 28 Aug 2014 23:12:47 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 28 Aug 2014 23:12:47 -0000 Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com smtp.mail=ajf@ajf.me; spf=pass; sender-id=pass Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com header.from=ajf@ajf.me; sender-id=pass Received-SPF: pass (pb1.pair.com: domain ajf.me designates 192.64.116.216 as permitted sender) X-PHP-List-Original-Sender: ajf@ajf.me X-Host-Fingerprint: 192.64.116.216 imap10-3.ox.privateemail.com Received: from [192.64.116.216] ([192.64.116.216:49918] helo=imap10-3.ox.privateemail.com) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.1.1.9-wez r(12769M)) with ESMTP id AA/13-10032-E67BFF35 for ; Thu, 28 Aug 2014 19:12:46 -0400 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.privateemail.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8250E2400D4; Thu, 28 Aug 2014 19:12:43 -0400 (EDT) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at imap10.ox.privateemail.com Received: from mail.privateemail.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (imap10.ox.privateemail.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id Mhc5GSN_AzYm; Thu, 28 Aug 2014 19:12:43 -0400 (EDT) Received: from [192.168.0.2] (05439dda.skybroadband.com [5.67.157.218]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.privateemail.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 643032400C7; Thu, 28 Aug 2014 19:12:37 -0400 (EDT) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Mime-Version: 1.0 (Mac OS X Mail 7.3 \(1878.6\)) In-Reply-To: <1409265882.6881.73.camel@guybrush> Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2014 00:12:35 +0100 Cc: Andrey Andreev , Julien Pauli , PHP Internals Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-ID: References: <1409264050.6881.64.camel@guybrush> <1409265882.6881.73.camel@guybrush> To: =?windows-1252?Q?Johannes_Schl=FCter?= X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1878.6) Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Cleaning 5.3 git branches ? From: ajf@ajf.me (Andrea Faulds) On 28 Aug 2014, at 23:44, Johannes Schl=FCter = wrote: > On Fri, 2014-08-29 at 01:34 +0300, Andrey Andreev wrote: >=20 >> Tags preserve history well enough, as previously noted - they are >> basically immutable branches. This looks like a no-brainer to me. >=20 > 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. >=20 > I'd say it's trivial to create the historic repo and that will = certainly > keep all history. I don=92t see the need, though. For cases where we added stuff after = release, just make an extra tag. -- Andrea Faulds http://ajf.me/