Re: 9.5 branching?

Le 1 juil. 2015 5:07 AM, "Alvaro Herrera" <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> a
écrit :
>
> Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> > The postgresql repository has branched of the REL9_5_STABLE branch. For
> > the time being, the "9.5" branch in the messages repository is still
master.
> >
> > I was wondering, would it be easier if we also branched off
> > REL9_5_STABLE in messages right now?
> >
> > We could just ignore the master branch for now and later on fork it off
> > REL9_5_STABLE (instead of the other way around, which is what we'd
> > usually do).
>
> I don't really care either way because by now I'm used to the way we do
> things, but I have the recollection that having "master" not follow
> upstream's master is confusing. However, I'm not sure that it makes a
> lot of sense to branch "master" from REL9_5_STABLE.
>

Agreed.

> > (We could also blow away the master branch altogether and recreate it
> > later, but I don't know what that would do to new checkouts in the
> > meantime, because we don't have access to set the default branch on the
> > git.postgresql.org hosting.)
>
> I think it might be useful to offer a way to change the default branch
> using the web interface. Let me ask the sysadmin dudes. What would be
> the git command to change the default branch?
>