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On April 1, 2010, Peter Wang wrote:
> On 2010-04-01, Thomas Fjellstrom <tfjellstrom@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On April 1, 2010, Peter Wang wrote:
> > > Please don't create a branch until we have to. Backporting is still
> > > a pain.
> >
> > Well you'd only use it if you absolutely couldn't put whatever it was
> > into 4.9/5.0. And not creating the branch will mean anyone who wants
> > to add something new will just have to wait, and thats not really
> > polite.
>
> We can consider it if it comes up for real.
>
> Branching now means we'll have to merge a boatload of changes later into
> the 5.1 branch, to pick up (at most) a couple of minor changes collected
> in the branch.
>
> Anyway, there are other options. Someone can use a feature branch or,
> better, distributed VCS. With git you can rebase your changes on top of
> the latest Allegro revision and stay up to date. Once we do branch, we
> can just apply the feature on top.
All good points.
> Peter
>
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