Re: [SyncEvolution] SyncEvolution release process
On Thu, 2014-04-03 at 11:05 +0200, Tino Mettler wrote:
Hi Patrick,
in the past, I also had issues with git tags that are updated
afterwards. I'd like some official announcement as part of the release
process for each tag to know if I can work with it. Usually, those
announcements were sent to this ML, but I'd to know if it is part of
the formal release process.
A tag is official once it got set on a "permanent" branch. Any branch
that is called "for-<some other branch>/<purpose>" is a branch which
may
(and usually does) get rebased and thus isn't permanent. In addition, I
announce new versions (and thus tags) here on the list.
The problem you had is when a tag appears on a non-permanent branch
because I am testing a release candidate in the nightly testing, which
pulls from the official repos. If that fails, I fix the problem and try
again with an updated tag.
As you found out, one has to tell git explicitly to fetch tag updates to
get the latest tags. I checked, using annotated tags does not help, one
still has to pull tags explicitly.
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Best Regards, Patrick Ohly
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