Re: conversion: vendor branches and release tags

[Thomas Klausner <wiz%NetBSD.org@localhost>]

On Sat, Jul 08, 2023 at 10:26:26PM +0000, David Holland wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 08, 2023 at 08:54:45AM +0200, Thomas Klausner wrote:
>  > - do we prefer Mercurial branches to bookmarks for the conversion?
> 
> Yes; Mercurial branches are "real" in the sense that they're
> persistent properties of commits (not just a label for a head like a
> bookmark or git branch) and you need them if you want to record the
> branching history reliably, which we do.

I understand this argument for pkgsrc and src (where we maintain
actual branches manually, like "netbsd-9" or "pkgsrc-2023Q2"), but
does it apply to othersrc and the other repositories, where we just
had imports on vendor branches?

The imports on the vendor branches are in the right order on the
bookmarked (unnamed) branches, and the conversion doesn't give us
proper merge commits anyway. What would a real branch give us here?

Cheers,
 Thomas