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Re: Documenting branches

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MVMarius Vollmer <marius.vollmer@uni-dortmund.de>
Date
Aug 23, 2008, 22:30 UTC
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Miklos Vajna <vmiklos@frugalware.org> writes:
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> On Sun, Aug 24, 2008 at 12:38:33AM +0300, Marius Vollmer <marius.vollmer@uni-dortmund.de> wrote:
>> Junio periodically posts "A note from the maintainer" that explains how
>> the Git repository is structured and what each of the branches is for.
>> It would good if this information could be found in a standard location
>> in the repository itself.
>
> See MaintNotes in the 'todo' branch.

Yes, I found them there, but I wouldn't call this a good example that other people should imitate. "MaintNotes in the todo branch" seems more born out of accident than by design. "NOTES in the README branch" already sounds much better.

> See also Junio's post in this thread:
>
> http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/79608/focus=79621
Thanks, I will read the whole thread.
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Message 24 of 42 in “nicer frontend to get rebased tree?”
  1. Andi KleenAug 22, 2008
  2. Linus TorvaldsAug 22, 2008
  3. Andi KleenAug 22, 2008
  4. Linus TorvaldsAug 22, 2008
  5. Paolo CiarrocchiAug 22, 2008
  6. Linus TorvaldsAug 22, 2008
  7. Björn SteinbrinkAug 22, 2008
  8. Paolo CiarrocchiAug 22, 2008
  9. Linus TorvaldsAug 22, 2008
  10. Junio C HamanoAug 22, 2008
  11. Andi KleenAug 23, 2008
  12. Paolo BonziniAug 23, 2008
  13. Andi KleenAug 23, 2008
  14. Paolo BonziniAug 23, 2008
  15. Linus TorvaldsAug 23, 2008
  16. Andi KleenAug 23, 2008
  17. Linus TorvaldsAug 23, 2008
  18. Ingo MolnarAug 25, 2008
  19. Björn SteinbrinkAug 23, 2008
  20. Linus TorvaldsAug 23, 2008
  21. Björn SteinbrinkAug 23, 2008
  22. Documentating branches (was: nicer frontend to get rebased tree?)Marius Vollmer, Aug 23, 2008
  23. Miklos VajnaAug 23, 2008
  24. Marius VollmerAug 23, 2008
  25. Marius VollmerAug 23, 2008
  26. Avery PennarunAug 22, 2008
  27. Andi KleenAug 22, 2008
  28. Paolo CiarrocchiAug 22, 2008
  29. Jakub NarebskiAug 22, 2008
  30. Andi KleenAug 23, 2008
  31. Paolo CiarrocchiAug 23, 2008
  32. Jakub NarebskiAug 23, 2008
  33. Andi KleenAug 23, 2008
  34. Paolo CiarrocchiAug 23, 2008
  35. Linus TorvaldsAug 23, 2008
  36. Paolo CiarrocchiAug 23, 2008
  37. Björn SteinbrinkAug 23, 2008
  38. Junio C HamanoAug 24, 2008
  39. Jakub NarebskiAug 23, 2008
  40. Theodore TsoAug 23, 2008
  41. A proposed solution (Was: nicer frontend to get rebased tree?)Theodore Tso, Aug 23, 2008
  42. Mikael MagnussonAug 22, 2008

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