From: Michal Ludvig <mludvig@suse.cz>
To: Diego Novillo <dnovillo@redhat.com>
Cc: gdb@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: [maint] Guidelines for experimental branches
Date: Wed, 05 Mar 2003 10:32:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3E65D253.8050508@suse.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <slrnb6ahkh.e93.dnovillo@tornado.toronto.redhat.com>
Diego Novillo wrote:
> In article <3E648828.3080502@suse.cz>, Michal Ludvig wrote:
>
>>Is it necessary to have the date in the name of the branch? IMHO it's
>>fine for the branchpoint, as well as for mergepoints, but for the branch
>>itself it's useless. People could much better remember words than
>>8-digits chunks and having to look on the webpage everytime, when I want
>>to check out a branch is boring.
>
> If the branch is long lived, you may want to re-create it more than once
> for performance reasons. As you get farther and farther from the
> branchpoint, CVS operations get increasingly slower. If dates are too
> long, you could also use 2-3 digit numbers.
So, could we say, that the date in there it optional?
Michal Ludvig
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-03-05 10:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-03-03 23:23 Andrew Cagney
2003-03-03 23:37 ` David Carlton
2003-03-04 0:09 ` Andrew Cagney
2003-03-04 4:19 ` Eli Zaretskii
2003-03-04 11:04 ` Michal Ludvig
2003-03-05 1:31 ` Diego Novillo
2003-03-05 10:32 ` Michal Ludvig [this message]
2003-03-05 15:14 ` Diego Novillo
2003-03-05 17:06 ` Andrew Cagney
2003-03-04 2:08 Michael Elizabeth Chastain
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