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From: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
To: <rocketraman@fastmail.fm>
Cc: <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCHv2] Update gitworkflows man page to include release workflow
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 2009 21:41:58 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200911112142.00209.trast@student.ethz.ch> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1257869339-15999-2-git-send-email-rocketraman@fastmail.fm>

It's nice to see someone work on this manpage :-) I sadly do not have
the time to read the whole patch right now, though I'll try and catch
up tomorrow or so.  In the meantime I do have one remark:

rocketraman@fastmail.fm wrote:
> +The maintainer may use the following release workflow:
> +
> +He first tags the tip of 'master' with a release tag, then he updates
> +the 'maint' branch to the current tip of 'master' for managing future
> +maintenance fixes on the current release, and lastly he optionally
> +rebuilds 'next' from the tip of 'master'.

The current gitworkflows is mostly formulated in the imperative, as in

  To test the interaction of several topics, merge them into a
  throw-away branch.  You must never base any work on such a branch!

or by directly describing the tools in the third person, as in

  * linkgit:git-push[1] copies your branches to a remote repository,
    usually to one that can be read by all involved parties;

It would certainly be nice to be somewhat consistent.  Since at first
glance your description is aimed at the maintainer himself, I assume
that would mostly mean addressing the maintainer as "you", and
formulating the rules in the imperative.

-- 
Thomas Rast
trast@{inf,student}.ethz.ch

  parent reply	other threads:[~2009-11-11 20:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-11-10 16:08 Update gitworkflows man page to include release workflow rocketraman
2009-11-10 16:08 ` [PATCHv2] " rocketraman
2009-11-10 18:06   ` Štěpán Němec
2009-11-10 18:10     ` Raman Gupta
2009-11-11 13:05   ` Thiago Farina
2009-11-11 15:23     ` Raman Gupta
2009-11-11 19:43   ` Junio C Hamano
2009-11-12  0:32     ` Raman Gupta
2009-11-12  8:03       ` Junio C Hamano
2009-11-12  8:10       ` Thomas Rast
2009-11-12 16:54         ` Raman Gupta
2009-11-11 20:41   ` Thomas Rast [this message]
2009-11-12  8:27   ` Thomas Rast

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