[hibernate-dev] Branching strategy in OGM

[Gunnar Morling]

2015-02-26 16:38 GMT+01:00 Sanne Grinovero <sanne at hibernate.org>:

> So you intend to do some evil history rewriting on branch 4.2? I don't
> think that's expected to happen on the reference repository.
>

I don't see a problem with rewriting in this case. It's not master and it's
not there for a long time. It's just a temp. working branch.

I haven't understood much of it so I'll send PRs to master and let you
> merge them wherever you want. Pretty sure I don't want to touch branch
> 4.2 myself.
>

Best is to send PRs to that branch you want them applied to: 4.1.2 ->
master, 4.2 -> 4.2. I'll rebase your OGM-747 branch and merge to 4.2.

On 26 February 2015 at 15:26, Gunnar Morling <gunnar at hibernate.org> wrote:
> > We did it intentionally that way to avoid any kind of back/forward
> porting
> > and keep the history linear.
> >
> > It's not that these branches are there for a long time, probably only
> until
> > tomorrow. 4.2 is meant to be rebased onto master and finally fast-forward
> > merged to master once 4.1.2 is out. Would be something different if there
> > was a long-lasting 4.1 branch which needs parallel maintenance, then I'd
> do
> > what you suggest.
> >
> > --Gunnar
> >
> >
> >
> > 2015-02-26 15:16 GMT+01:00 Sanne Grinovero <sanne at hibernate.org>:
> >>
> >> Hey all,
> >> it seems like the branch for maintenance work on OGM 4.1 is (still)
> >> called "master", while a branch "4.2" was created for future work.
> >>
> >> I'd really prefer it the other way around: create a branch "4.1" to
> >> host all changes which are needed to be backported on 4.1.x , and call
> >> "master" what will receive all of the latest improvements.
> >>
> >> Let's see on IRC when it is a good time to rename the branches? It
> >> better happens "atomically" or it's a mess..
> >>
> >> Sanne
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