ToplingDB Branch Name Convention

We added many features and enhancements to RocksDB, but we realize these goals in a minimum code change way, thus minimum the test efforts and evolve with upstream RocksDB over time.

Periodically, we merges ToplingDB changes to upstream RocksDB, because our changes are much less than upstream between different version.

Our code changes are designed to be minimal different to upstream RocksDB, merge by this way minimize change conflicts.

We names ToplingDB branch name in a consistency way, let us list all ToplingDB branches:

git branch | grep sideplugin
  sideplugin-6.20.3-2021-05-05-8608d75d
  sideplugin-6.22.0-2021-07-06-714ce504
  sideplugin-6.24.0-2021-09-04-e8eb0214
  sideplugin-6.25.3-2021-10-14-0103296f
  sideplugin-6.26.0-2021-11-04-28bab0ef
  sideplugin-6.28.0-2021-12-30-677d2b4a
  sideplugin-7.01.0-2022-03-28-a5e51305
  sideplugin-7.04.0-2022-06-10-415200d7
+ sideplugin-7.06.0-2022-07-26-84e9b6ee
* sideplugin-7.10.0-2022-12-21-bec42648

Now we disassembler the branch name(Bold is active branch):

sideplugin	Version	Date	Hash
sideplugin	6.20.3	2021-05-05	8608d75d
sideplugin	6.22.0	2021-07-06	714ce504
sideplugin	6.24.0	2021-09-04	e8eb0214
sideplugin	6.25.3	2021-10-14	0103296f
sideplugin	6.26.0	2021-11-04	28bab0ef
sideplugin	6.28.0	2021-12-30	677d2b4a
sideplugin	7.01.0	2022-03-28	a5e51305
sideplugin	7.04.0	2022-06-10	415200d7
sideplugin	7.06.0	2022-07-26	84e9b6ee
sideplugin	7.10.0	2022-12-21	bec42648

Each part of branch names:

Part	Description
Version	Upstream RocksDB version, Major.Minor.Patch, Minor use 2 digit, such as 01, 04, 06, 10, thus branch list can be pretty sorted
Date	Date of the lastest upstream RocksDB commit for this ToplingDB branch
Hash	Hash of the lastest upstream RocksDB commit for this ToplingDB branch

We can get Date by git branch <Hash>, but that's vebose, we copy Date to branch name for straight forward.

The Hash part identify the base version of upstream RocksDB, with Hash, we can easily compare with upstream by:

git diff -w <Hash>