>ven. 08 août 2025 at 13:15, Gabriel Wicki <gabr...@erlikon.ch> wrote:

> Hey!
>
> Maxim Cournoyer <ma...@guixotic.coop> writes:
>> My main objections are:
>>
>> 1) The global tag namespace of the repo would quickly (or at some pace)
>> become messy, as branches are merged often
>>
>> 2) Merge commits would serve that exact purpose without incurring 1), so
>> it seems we should just use that
>
> I understand and agree with you, Maxim!  Tagging merges makes little to
> no sense, we should rather just use merge commits, which actually
> already happens (sometimes).  For us developers this could help a bunch,
> especially when we try to figure out why problems in the code base were
> introduced.

I’m late to the party, but I always though that merge commits of team
branches were the obvious way to go to that matter.

And I always understood that, if Guix took the decision to keep solely a
linear history, was due to a good reason which I ignore, originating
back in time. This reason is still valid ? What has changed since ?

C.

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