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Re:A note of reflection after 10 years of “A successful Git ... by Joky on Thursday March 05, 2020 @07:22PM (#22499903)
The original post was describing "Administrator is in charge of merging, maintains a linear history. Releases are just tags on master", you seem to discuss the various branching strategy while it seems to me the explanation was about the fact that we need a branching strategy in the first place. Do I miss something?
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Re:A note of reflection after 10 years of “A successful Git ... by mikekchar on Thursday March 05, 2020 @09:18PM (#22500482)
The reply to the original post was describing branching off at a historic place without merging back into trunk. You can't have a branch without a branch ;-) I think the person replying did not understand that you can easily branch from a commit with a tag (and in fact a branch is really just a special kind of tag on a commit in git).
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