[LLVMdev] Reminder: 2.5 branch re-creation tonight.

[Tanya M. Lattner]

> On Monday 02 February 2009 13:20, Tanya M. Lattner wrote:
>> Just a reminder, I'll be re-creating the 2.5 branch tonight at 9pm PST.
>
> What does re-creating mean?  Why can't the previously-created 2.5 branch
> simply be updated?

It means deleting the branch and creating a new one.

> I ask because svn history will look a little wierd and it makes it harder for
> third parties to track revisions and do merges.

I don't really understand why this is an issue. I'm sure svn is capable of 
extracting the information that you want. I'd rather not do one giant 
merge to our existing branch which will only create more noise to 
llvm-commits.

-Tanya