From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andreas Ericsson Subject: Re: Reference for git.git release process Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2009 09:05:58 +0100 Message-ID: <49CB3766.5090109@op5.se> References: <49CA78BF.2020101@fastmail.fm> <7viqlxz9go.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Raman Gupta , git@vger.kernel.org To: Junio C Hamano X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu Mar 26 09:16:12 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Lmkkw-0005S9-F8 for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Thu, 26 Mar 2009 09:16:06 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751061AbZCZIOe (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Mar 2009 04:14:34 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751591AbZCZIOd (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Mar 2009 04:14:33 -0400 Received: from mail.op5.se ([193.201.96.20]:57316 "EHLO mail.op5.se" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751173AbZCZIOb (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Mar 2009 04:14:31 -0400 X-Greylist: delayed 501 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Thu, 26 Mar 2009 04:14:31 EDT Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by mail.op5.se (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4EB111B80CB9; Thu, 26 Mar 2009 09:06:12 +0100 (CET) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at X-Spam-Flag: NO X-Spam-Score: -2.499 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.499 tagged_above=-10 required=6.6 tests=[BAYES_00=-2.599, RDNS_NONE=0.1] Received: from mail.op5.se ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (mail.op5.se [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id Me4zOzyf2SyH; Thu, 26 Mar 2009 09:06:10 +0100 (CET) Received: from clix.int.op5.se (unknown [172.27.78.6]) by mail.op5.se (Postfix) with ESMTP id D4F3A1B80076; Thu, 26 Mar 2009 09:06:05 +0100 (CET) User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.21 (X11/20090320) In-Reply-To: <7viqlxz9go.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: 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? ;-) -- Andreas Ericsson andreas.ericsson@op5.se OP5 AB www.op5.se Tel: +46 8-230225 Fax: +46 8-230231 Considering the successes of the wars on alcohol, poverty, drugs and terror, I think we should give some serious thought to declaring war on peace.