[Users] release branches created

[Ian Hinder]

On 15 May 2015, at 22:15, Frank Löffler <knarf at cct.lsu.edu> wrote:

> On Fri, May 15, 2015 at 10:06:35PM +0200, Ian Hinder wrote:
>> I thought tags were immutable?  They should probably only have been created at the time of release, since we don't need them for the final phase of testing.
> 
> No, they are not, both in svn and git. And git doesn't even track their
> history. I should probably have created them later - it is just
> convenient to do both branches and tags in one go, and I didn't expect
> changes at that point.

I guess they should be immutable as a matter of policy rather than technicality.  The use case for tags as opposed to branches is to refer to a specific version, rather than a line of development.

-- 
Ian Hinder
http://members.aei.mpg.de/ianhin

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