Re: branch versioning

From: Matthieu Moy <matthieu.moy@grenoble-inp.fr>
Date: Oct 4, 2010, 13:25 UTC
Message-ID: <vpqpqvqjdj1.fsf@bauges.imag.fr>
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTimWxPPi_hHuato+hHePaEja=66GzLEpDUVcZV0i@mail.gmail.com>

Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com> writes:

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> Hi,
>
> How do you guys manage versions of a topic branch? I usually end up
> saving format-patch series somewhere or forget all old versions.
> Although I really want to keep old versions around. reflog to me   is
> polluted with every kind of branch updates. And it's local
> information. It can't be transferred to another repo (or can it?)

I don't have strong needs in branch-versionning, so usually, the reflog is OK for me. When I need to save something, I set a tag on the current version of the branch before continuing (that's somehow manual versionning: the tag isn't versionned, so if I actually need history, I'll set several tags like refs/tags/sent-to-list-as-v1 refs/tags/before-starting-rebase, ...).

But other tools like stgit, topgit & friends may help to manage that in a cleaner way.

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Matthieu Moy
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