4.6 branches created in git again

Andreas Hartmetz ahartmetz at gmail.com
Sun Mar 20 15:13:13 GMT 2011


On Sunday 20 March 2011 15:59:55 Parker Coates wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 20, 2011 at 10:09, Andreas Hartmetz wrote:
> > On Sunday 20 March 2011 14:38:40 Albert Astals Cid wrote:
> >> Can you please be careful and do not create incorrectly 4.6 branches in
> >> places where the branch is called KDE/4.6 (e.g kdelibs and kde-runtime)
> >> 
> >> Ian can you kill them?
> > 
> > Maybe we can go through with renaming the branches to n.m (without KDE/)
> > prefix?
> 
> I think keeping the prefix is the superior option. For kdelibs,
> kderuntime, kdeworkspace, etc. it really doesn't make any difference,
> but for something like, say, Konsole the difference is important. If
> one sees a branch named "4.6" in the Konsole repository, one is likely
> to assume that it represents Konsole 4.6, when in fact it represents
> Konsole 2.6 which is part of KDE SC 4.6. Keeping the "KDE/" prefix
> helps clarify this.
> 
Right, I didn't think of that...
AFAIK we have some modules where the branch is called 4.6. They aren't that 
many, and can we fix them then?




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