Daryle Walker wrote:
On Aug 19, 2008, at 8:34 AM, Rene Rivera wrote:
Gennaro Prota wrote: [...]
where does the release branch originate from?
It's always from the previous release.
Is this a good thing?
Not to me. I imagine that, in a time in which I wasn't following the list, there have been long discussions which led to the current state of affairs. So, it may be clear to everyone except me. What I know for sure is that this requires *a lot* of work every time you make a modification; and either a lot of memory on your part, or a file where you note the inter-release changes down, detailedly (I certainly don't trust merging a whole directory (or multiple ones) blindly: I want to see exactly what gets merged; and, to do this, I have to keep a list of what changes I made). With such an approach, I'd expect more problems due to naive merges than problems due to an unstable trunk version being used as a branch point. My $1.7 cent -- Genny