[hibernate-dev] ORM 6 branch

[Steve Ebersole]

NP, I could have been more clear.

I guess I see it this way... this is a Work-In-Progress (wip).  As such it
has certain implications.  In fact I really liked this branch naming
convention (borrowed from Vlad) for just this reason.

On Tue, Nov 27, 2018 at 8:03 AM Davide D'Alto <davide at hibernate.org> wrote:

> > Well first, I never said it would be deleted after the Alpha.  I said it
> would be deleted *at some point*, meaning at some point after 6 is moved to
> master.
>
> Sorry, my bad
> On Tue, Nov 27, 2018 at 1:34 PM Steve Ebersole <steve at hibernate.org>
> wrote:
> >
> > On Tue, Nov 27, 2018 at 7:22 AM Davide D'Alto <davide at hibernate.org>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> +1 for the creation of the branch upstream and everything Yoann said.
> >>
> >> One curiosity,  once there is an alpha, why would you delete the whole
> branch?
> >> Couldn't you change everything on the existing branch without deleting
> it?
> >> It's unusual to rewrite the history of upstream branches but we have
> >> done it before.
> >
> >
> > Well first, I never said it would be deleted after the Alpha.  I said it
> would be deleted *at some point*, meaning at some point after 6 is moved to
> master.
> >
> > Also, IMO, topic branches upstream are generally speaking a very bad
> idea.  So this is something we hardly ever do - maybe y'all do on other
> projects, dunno.  But either way, it is very common for a topic branch to
> go away eventually.
> >
> > As far as re-writing history, sure it is unusual but we are already in
> the realm of unusual merely by having a topic branch upstream
> >
>