[Insight-developers] ITK git branches

[Matt McCormick]

Yes, I like "maint-3.20".

Thanks,
Matt

On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 3:12 PM, Bill Lorensen <bill.lorensen at gmail.com> wrote:
> Sounds good to me
>
> On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 3:05 PM, Brad King <brad.king at kitware.com> wrote:
>> On 12/13/2011 2:25 PM, Matt McCormick wrote:
>>>
>>> As we approach ITKv4, we should consider how to organize git branches.
>>>  Currently, we have
>>>
>>>   dashboard - CTest/CDash dashboard scripts
>>>   hooks - Git Hooks
>>>   master - where most development occurs
>>>   nightly-master - follows the CDash nightly builds (?)
>>>   release - currently a stage for bug fixes for ITKv3
>>>
>>> I assume we like to advance 'release' to ITKv4 after the 4.0.0 release.
>>> We should probably retain a branch for ITKv3 bugfixes.  Would 'v3release'
>>> be a good name?
>>
>>
>> It's not necessary to keep an explicitly named branch ref for the v3
>> release.
>> Anyone can start the branch locally from a v3 tag or by naming a commit
>> hash.
>> Whenever we collect new v3 fixes we can add a tag like v3.20.x for the next
>> x.
>>
>> The above is why you don't see ITK-2-0, ITK-2-2, etc. branches in the
>> repository.
>> OTOH if we want to keep a named branch around to make things easier and then
>> just
>> drop it when v3 is totally unmaintained there is no problem with that.  In
>> that
>> case I suggest the name "release-3.20" or "maint-3.20" to indicate the
>> release
>> series it manages (since new release would come with v3.20.x tags).
>>
>> -Brad
>>
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