From: Brian Foster <brian.foster@maxim-ic.com>
Date: Thu, 05 Jul 2012 07:06:19 GMT
Subject: Re: [Q] Branch aliases (synonyms)?
Message-ID: <4406023.HK6z7GB5ye@laclwks004>
In-Reply-To: <4417201.NtYkVMYjv0@laclwks004>

On Wednesday 04-July-2012 00:31:40 Brian Foster wrote:
> On Tuesday 03-July-2012 08:29:26 Michael Haggerty wrote:
> > On 07/03/2012 03:40 PM, Brian Foster wrote:
> > > On Tuesday 03-July-2012 05:23:29 Hallvard Breien Furuseth wrote:
> > >>              E.g. if it's hard to teach developers to switch
> > >>   from B to A, a hook which rejects pushes to B might help.
> > >
> > > [ ... ]                    the concern is about the
> > >  external users (clients who clone but never push)
> > >  becoming confused.  [ ... ]
> > 
> > Maybe create a new branch B (an orphan commit unconnected
> > to the old branch B) with a single README file telling the
> > person that from now on they should be using branch A.
> 
>  Hum....  This idea, at first glance, looks
>  extremely intriguing (with, perhaps, the minor
>  tweak there is also a ‘Makefile’ which shows
>  the ‘READ_ME’ and then always “fails”  [ ... ]).

Michael,

 Thanks for this idea!  With my ‘Makefile’ tweak,
 the idea has caught fire, and is now the preferred
 solution.  Whilst I have not yet finished updating
 my model to test it, it is extremely promising.

cheers,
	-blf-

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Brian Foster
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