From: Wesley J. Landaker Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2011 22:22:39 GMT Subject: Re: Symbolic 'references' in Git? Message-ID: <201104141622.39491.wjl@icecavern.net> In-Reply-To: On Thursday, April 14, 2011 15:31:13 Chris Patti wrote: > On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 5:24 PM, Wesley J. Landaker wrote: > > Why not just use a tag or a branch ? > > Won't either of those things create a 'next-release' that's frozen in > time where the release-3.15 branch is *right now*? > > This is for a CI system (Bamboo) so we need next-release to act as if > we were using release-3.15 itself. Yes, you are right, but I was thinking about how I usually see it done and do it in my projects is that "next-release" is what you always are working on, and "release-3.15" would only be made when 3.15 is finalized. It sounds like you are doing it the other way around, in which case I agree that being able to easily share symbolic-refs would be solve the problem -- but I don't know how to do that, other than, say, a hook script that everyone uses. Maybe someone else will chime in with a better solution? =)