On Jun 2, 2009, at 3:11 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
> "David E. Wheeler" <david@kineticode.com> writes:
>> Perhaps there's a master repository that corresonds to CVS HEAD, and
>> then release branches are actually separate git repositories.
>
> Yeah, I was speculating about that one too. It might be workable.
> Just "cp -r" the master whenever we fork a new branch.
Well, you'd clone it, but yes, thats' what I meant.
> However, there'd
> be no very easy way to get a change history that includes patches that
> applied only to some back branches (something that does happen, a few
> times a year perhaps). Maybe that special log tool Andrew was
> speculating about would take the form of a program to aggregate the
> change histories of several repositories.
You mean so that such patches in back branches show up in the the
history of master?
Best,
David
