[development] Tagging and branching, again.

[Earl Miles]

Gabor Hojtsy wrote:
>
>> It's not an error, it's intentional on my part. Now you've fucked *me* up.
>>
>> If you don't like my repository, that's fine. But I do not appreciate
>> you branching it when I was not ready for it it to be branched.
>>     
>
> Then why did you tag it?
>
> Goba
>   
I tagged it to have a pointer to a stable version that people can use. 
It's a bit like how the betas are being done, only there isn't a tag, 
they just tar one up and put it somewhere. We don't have a lot of 
flexibility in the system.

If I branch the code, I now have to deal with putting fixes into two 
different places. Drupal itself hasn't been branched for 4.7 yet. If I 
work in HEAD, that work isn't going to go into 4.7 unless I take the 
time and energy to port those to the branch. CVS is a pain in the ass 
about branches, and I didn't want to deal with that hassle. Thus, I used 
a tag. When 4.7 was actually stable, branched and released, at that time 
I planned to branch. Why would I want to branch software for a version 
that isn't even ready yet?

Now, I'm branched. Any changes I make to Views now require a bunch of 
extra work, because branching can't be undone.