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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Can we remove "NEWS" tag ?
From: ml@anderiasch.de (Florian Anderiasch)

On 02/11/2015 10:52 AM, Lior Kaplan wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I've been doing some editing to the NEWS files, and keep getting this
> problem
> 
> $ git diff NEWS
> fatal: ambiguous argument 'NEWS': both revision and filename
> Use '--' to separate filenames from revisions
> 
> Although I can do as it suggests, I would prefer to remove the NEWS tag we
> have since 2008 as part  of the move from CVS to SVN.
> 
> Any objections ?

While I don't think anyone would actually be using that in the near
future, can't you just rename it to NEWS-2008 or something? (Or manually
retagging and then deleting if nothing else.)

 * still can be found
 * no historically important data is lost (just kidding)
 * problem solved

Just because I've seen people argue in favor of keeping historical
branches and stuff, and while I don't see a lot of value, it might be
needed at some point.

~Florian