[Zope-Coders] Zope 2.7 branch

Shane Hathaway shane@zope.com
Tue, 08 Jul 2003 10:26:03 -0400


Anthony Baxter wrote:
>>>>Shane Hathaway wrote
>>
>>No problem.  I suggest we ignore the Zope-2_7-branch for now (I wish 
>>there were a way to temporarily disable checkins to a branch) and 
>>consider the head to be Zope 2.7.
> 
> 
> Disabling checkins on a branch could probably be done with a suitably 
> magic commit script. Or, since there will be a new tag of Zope-2_7-branch
> at some point when we go to beta of 2.7, just cvs tag -d Zope-2_7-branch
> and blow away the tag. The branch will still be there, but the chances of
> someone managing to check stuff into it without a symbolic name is.. slight.

I'm afraid of "cvs tag -d".  Is my fear justified?  Could it corrupt the 
version histories?

> (If you want to be thorough, tag what's in the 2.7 branch now with some
> name like Zope-2_7-too-early-branch, before nuking the Zope-2_7-branch tag).

Good idea.  Does anyone object to deleting the "Zope-2_7-branch" tag?

Shane