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Re: New branch: ia64-improvements-branch
On Wed, 16 Nov 2005, Diego Novillo wrote:
> On Tuesday 15 November 2005 21:17, Branko Ä?ibej wrote:
>
> > Now that GCC has switched to SVN, and tag and branch names are for all
> > practical purposes in different namespaces, you could drop the "-branch"
> > suffix from new branch names.
> >
> Sure. Done.
>
> > (You could also rename old branches, but then old changelogs would be
> > outdated.)
> >
> This is a bit harder with old branches. Several people have the branches
> locally and a branch rename forces a new check-out.
Not sure what you mean by "have the branches locally" (SVK?), but a
plain rename of a branch doesn't force new check-outs, people can use
svn switch to point their working copies at the new branch name.