<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div>The word "branch" in "previewbranch_8_0" seems superfluous to me as it does in releasebranch_7_8 plus it is two words together without a separator. Would v8 be a good time to change that practice?</div><div><br></div><div>Advantages of just release_8_0:</div><div><br></div><div>A1) No 'branch == releasebranch_7_8' or 'switch to the releasebranch_7_8 branch' statements.</div><div><br></div><div>A2) Master branch is also only a branch and does not have the word branch in it.</div><div><br></div><div>A3) Both QGIS and GDAL use only "release", not "branch", in the name of their release branches.<br></div></div><div><br></div><div>Disadvantages of just release_8_0:</div><div><br></div><div>D1) In contexts where you use Git to get a specific branch or tag, you don't see from the command that it is indeed a branch (in `git --branch release_8_0`, release_8_0 could, in theory, be a tag). However, you are likely to correctly guess it is a branch, not a tag, since tags for release are most often mostly the numbers only, i.e., in format v8.0 or, as in our case, 8.0.<br></div><div><br></div><div>D2) Scripts constructing the branch name from the version name will break, however it seems like a better practice to me in this case to parameterize the whole branch name and there needs to be likely other changes for v8 in these scripts anyway.</div><div><br></div><div>Vaclav<br></div><div><br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, Jun 6, 2021 at 2:41 AM Markus Neteler <<a href="mailto:neteler@osgeo.org">neteler@osgeo.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Hi all,<br>
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The new 8.0.0alpha preview branch is ready:<br>
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<a href="https://github.com/OSGeo/grass/tree/previewbranch_8_0" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://github.com/OSGeo/grass/tree/previewbranch_8_0</a><br>
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Best,<br>
Markus<br>
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