Re: [boost] question/guidence regarding merge to master

Subject: Re: [boost] question/guidence regarding merge to master
From: Andrey Semashev (andrey.semashev_at_[hidden])
Date: 2019-01-11 15:26:06

On 1/11/19 6:21 PM, Robert Ramey via Boost wrote:
> On 1/11/19 7:16 AM, Andrey Semashev via Boost wrote:
> \
>> To illustrate, just the other day I had to track down a change in 
>> Boost.Filesystem so that I could tell a user when a bug appeared in 
>> the code and when it was fixed. I was able to do that, both in terms 
>> of Boost realeases and commits with their respective commit messages 
>> and dates, because I had a fine grained history with tags. I was able 
>> to track down the particular PRs, if I had to. I think, this is an 
>> important feature of the detailed git history.
> 
> Right - but couldn't you have done that with the develop History?

No, because release tags are applied to the commits in master that are 
used to ship a Boost release.