[Interest] What happened to 5.5.1 branch?

Sze Howe Koh szehowe.koh at gmail.com
Sat Feb 6 00:46:56 CET 2016


On 6 February 2016 at 07:13, Jason H <jhihn at gmx.com> wrote:
>
>
> > Sent: Friday, February 05, 2016 at 5:59 PM
> > From: "Thiago Macieira" <thiago.macieira at intel.com>
> > To: interest at qt-project.org
> > Subject: Re: [Interest] What happened to 5.5.1 branch?
> >
> > Answering the subject: 5.5.1 is released, so it no longer needs a branch.
> >
> > On sexta-feira, 5 de fevereiro de 2016 23:32:09 PST Jason H wrote:
> > > Git issues:
> > > 1. I checked out the 5.5.1, and created a branch called
> > > osx_recording_params. SourceTree shows me the [osx_recording_params] in the
> > > "SourceTree" window.
> >
> > Mistake. You should have checked out the 5.5 branch.
> >
> > > 2. Things were fine until 5.6 branch happened.  Now,
> > > the list of pre-5.6 branches is gone. $ git branch
> > > * (HEAD detached from c595fc7) # <- this was the 5.5.1 commit of
> > > qtmultimedia that I checked out. 5.6
> >
> > You were detached already. It just happened that the remote branch that you
> > happened to be detached from is now gone.
>
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>
> Not sure why it got deleted. They are free.

It's free to keep it in the repository, but it adds noise to, say,
`git branch -r` (command line). The number of Qt versions only grows
over time.

Also, a branch is for making commits. Since no more commits are
accepted for Qt 5.5.1, it makes sense to remove the "5.5.1" branch.

If you want the 5.5.1, sources, you can check out the "v5.5.1" tag.


> And there are others. Now I'm always getting:
> 'git log' failed with code 128:'fatal: bad revision '(HEAD detached from c595fc7)'
> with all my git actions.

That's a SourceTree issue, not a git issue. Here's an old, unresolved
bug report: https://answers.atlassian.com/questions/293099/git-log-failed-with-code-128-fatal-bad-revision-detached-from-35e6d4e

Here's what others have done to fix very similar errors:
https://answers.atlassian.com/questions/94201/error-encountered-on-source-tree-git-log-failed-with-code-128


Regards,
Sze-Howe



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