From: Andreas Ericsson <ae@op5.se>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: Raman Gupta <rocketraman@fastmail.fm>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Reference for git.git release process
Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2009 09:05:58 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <49CB3766.5090109@op5.se> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7viqlxz9go.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
Junio C Hamano wrote:
>
> In addition, you can keep older maintenance track around, i.e.
>
> git branch maint-X.Y.(Z-1) maint
> git checkout maint
> git merge master
>
> so that maintenance releases for even older codebase _could_ be issued
> _if_ necessary.
>
Assuming one tags ones releases (which one should, and git.git does),
creating maint-X.Y.Z when it's actually needed is a far better approach.
No morning coffee yet, Junio? ;-)
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-03-26 8:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-03-25 18:32 Reference for git.git release process Raman Gupta
2009-03-25 19:30 ` Junio C Hamano
2009-03-25 22:03 ` Raman Gupta
2009-03-25 23:41 ` Junio C Hamano
2009-03-26 3:26 ` Junio C Hamano
2009-03-26 2:27 ` Jeff King
2009-03-26 3:13 ` Junio C Hamano
2009-03-26 3:15 ` Jeff King
2009-03-26 3:28 ` Junio C Hamano
2009-03-26 3:49 ` Jeff King
2009-03-26 3:34 ` Junio C Hamano
2009-03-26 17:03 ` Shawn O. Pearce
2009-03-26 8:05 ` Andreas Ericsson [this message]
2009-03-26 14:29 ` Raman Gupta
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