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[poll] does anybody depend on RelNotes being a symbolic link?

From
Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Feb 11, 2015, 22:23 UTC
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I am wondering if I can turn the top-level RelNotes symbolic link into a regular file.

The benefit for doing that is that I can start the file like so:
    Git ???? Release Notes
    ======================
    Updates since v2.3

early in the cycle and then later decide if we want to make the next one 3.0 or 2.4. And then just after the release, I move it down to Documentation/RelNotes/3.0.0.txt (or 2.4.0.txt) and start the next cycle.

One thing that worries me is that people and their build scripts might depend on being able to figure out the upcoming release name by reading the symbolic link, assuming that the link would point to Documentation/RelNotes/x.y.z.txt, and such a change ends up breaking their setup. I am not sure how likely this would be. Objections?

Also any other objections, other possible cause of breakages I may have missed?

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  1. Junio C HamanoFeb 11, 2015

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