[maint] Guidelines for experimental branches

[Michal Ludvig]

Diego Novillo wrote:
> In article <3E648828.3080502@suse.cz>, Michal Ludvig wrote:
> 
>>Is it necessary to have the date in the name of the branch? IMHO it's 
>>fine for the branchpoint, as well as for mergepoints, but for the branch 
>>itself it's useless. People could much better remember words than 
>>8-digits chunks and having to look on the webpage everytime, when I want 
>>to check out a branch is boring.
> 
> If the branch is long lived, you may want to re-create it more than once
> for performance reasons.  As you get farther and farther from the
> branchpoint, CVS operations get increasingly slower.  If dates are too
> long, you could also use 2-3 digit numbers.

So, could we say, that the date in there it optional?

Michal Ludvig
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