Re: branch versioning

Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy [off-list ref] writes:

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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