[Bioperl-l] git branches, tags, 'topic/bug_####'

[Jay Hannah]

On May 13, 2010, at 8:49 AM, Chris Fields wrote:
> Saying that, we could adopt a workflow policy that allows deletion of any merged branch.

Right. Except for release-* branches, which are never merged anywhere. A release is a branch while it's being prepared and tweaked. Once perfect, it is tagged and pushed to CPAN. At that point the branch can be deleted since we can never push that release number to CPAN again (even if we wanted to). The tag remains forever.

Or am I mistaken?

Jay Hannah
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