Git branch naming (Re: wine-2.0.1-rc1 Available)

[Michael Stefaniuc]

Hello Jens,

On 04/04/2017 01:37 PM, Jens Reyer wrote:
> Hi Michael and winehq git maintainers
> 
> On 29.03.2017 23:05, Michael Stefaniuc wrote:
>> I have pushed wine-2.0.1-rc1 (with tag) to
>> https://github.com/mstefani/wine-stable
>> https://static-winehq.rhcloud.com/stable/
> 
> I see you are re-using the branch name "stable", overwriting the
> previous (1.8) branch. The same on winehq.org, where I see "stable" and
> "oldstable".
> 
> I suggest to use versioned names, maybe "stable-2.0" instead. (Anything
> with some version would be fine, as long as it doesn't conflict with tag
> names.)
> 
> I see how re-using "stable" might be favorable when you are working with
> the current stable release only, but as soon as you are working with
> several stable releases it might get a bit confusing. E.g. in Debian we
well, we do not intend to support more than one stable version at any
time. Except when a new stable version is cut there will be a last
update to the now oldstable.

> will still be supporting 1.8 when 3.0 or 4.0 is out. Although I hope
> there will be no need for changes then, it would still be nice to have a
> branch available, where changes might be shared across distros even if
> no further update is planned.
Sure, if more distributions than Debian/Ubuntu will still use wine-1.8.7
(which I hope they won't) and there are common patches then yeah, I will
create a stable-1.8 branch on my github tree. As a courtesy not for an
official support.


bye
	michael