[squeak-dev] Inbox and Communication

Eliot Miranda eliot.miranda at gmail.com
Sat Apr 16 16:42:19 UTC 2011


On Sat, Apr 16, 2011 at 9:37 AM, Colin Putney <colin at wiresong.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 10:57 PM, Eliot Miranda <eliot.miranda at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > Use some false initials that name the branch, and start its version
> numbers
> > from e.g. 1.  So I name my open-source Cog versions VMMaker-oscog.N.  The
> > package still has my initials as author.  David is using
> > VMMaker-oscog.dtl.N, etc.
>
> Actually, MC does have some support for branching. If you use the
> following convention, MC will do the "right" thing - group the
> branched versions together in the UI, automatically suggest a version
> name that's on a branch, and still allow you to merge between
> branches. The naming convention is:
>
> <package>.<branch>-<initials>.<id>
>
> So if Eliot were using the standard convention, his versions would be
> named like this:
>
> VMMaker.oscog-eem.147
>

I shall start using this.  Thanks.

Eliot


>
> Colin
>
>
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