[keycloak-dev] Some branches are gone?

[Bill Burke]

2.1 is tagged, can't you just create a branch off of that tag?


On 9/9/16 8:17 AM, Stian Thorgersen wrote:
> With a new minor release of Keycloak every 6 weeks that ends up being 
> a lot of dead branches to keep around. Removing them makes it clear 
> they are no longer maintained and stops people from sending PRs to 
> them (this regularly happens).
>
> Why not just base your branch of the Final tag?
>
> On 9 September 2016 at 11:59, Thomas Darimont 
> <thomas.darimont at googlemail.com 
> <mailto:thomas.darimont at googlemail.com>> wrote:
>
>     Hello,
>
>     I think it would have been helpful to announce that on the
>     keycloak-user /-dev mailing-lists and Keycloak blog.
>     (In case it was announced - it was IMHO not stressed enough).
>
>     Some folks (including me) based their internal forks of Keycloak
>     on top of a "maintenance branch" like 2.1.x
>     expecting to be able to channel compatible fixes / patches into
>     the said custom fork.
>
>     With those maintenance branches now gone - this model no longer works.
>     Given that keycloak has now over 500 forks I guess that I'm not
>     the only one who followed that model.
>
>     I would suggest to keep some maintenace branches for previous
>     versions (e.g. 2.1.x) around to enable users
>     to upgrade their forks in a timely manner.
>
>     Cheers,
>     Thomas
>
>     2016-09-09 11:34 GMT+02:00 Stian Thorgersen <sthorger at redhat.com
>     <mailto:sthorger at redhat.com>>:
>
>         They where deleted on purpose. 2.2 is about to be released,
>         which means there won't be any more 2.1 or 2.0 releases so
>         these branches are no longer needed.
>
>         On 9 September 2016 at 10:55, Thomas Darimont
>         <thomas.darimont at googlemail.com
>         <mailto:thomas.darimont at googlemail.com>> wrote:
>
>             Hello,
>
>             just found out that some of the maintenance branches:
>             2.1.x, 2.0.x are no longer available in in the the
>             keycloak github repository.
>
>             Only the 1.9.x & master branches are left :(
>
>             Did someone accidentally remove those branches?
>
>             Cheers,
>             Thomas
>
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