From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Raman Gupta Subject: Re: [PATCHv2] Update gitworkflows man page to include release workflow Date: Wed, 11 Nov 2009 10:23:26 -0500 Message-ID: <4AFAD6EE.3010205@fastmail.fm> References: <1257869339-15999-1-git-send-email-rocketraman@fastmail.fm> <1257869339-15999-2-git-send-email-rocketraman@fastmail.fm> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: git@vger.kernel.org To: Thiago Farina X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Wed Nov 11 16:30:43 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1N8F9f-0007kO-1t for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Wed, 11 Nov 2009 16:30:43 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757337AbZKKPaJ (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 Nov 2009 10:30:09 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1756217AbZKKPaJ (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 Nov 2009 10:30:09 -0500 Received: from smtp102.rog.mail.re2.yahoo.com ([206.190.36.80]:46474 "HELO smtp102.rog.mail.re2.yahoo.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1757389AbZKKPaI (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 Nov 2009 10:30:08 -0500 X-Greylist: delayed 399 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Wed, 11 Nov 2009 10:30:07 EST Received: (qmail 15366 invoked from network); 11 Nov 2009 15:23:33 -0000 Received: from CPE000db9166236-CM00186845d2ae.cpe.net.cable.rogers.com (rocketraman@99.224.155.40 with login) by smtp102.rog.mail.re2.yahoo.com with SMTP; 11 Nov 2009 07:23:33 -0800 PST X-Yahoo-SMTP: 5CKRlKeswBAtrcX.EVB04BFKSgZiN0yKOK0iylIm064Zdzo- X-YMail-OSG: uW18XQwVM1kwZx9xzOFBuO33ElhXjYshwKvpH.jVzToSQUKTAfBY0RRNj3GmEesBWQ-- X-Yahoo-Newman-Property: ymail-3 Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by apollo.rocketraman.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id F153D21C05CC; Wed, 11 Nov 2009 10:23:32 -0500 (EST) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at rocketraman.com Received: from apollo.rocketraman.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (apollo.rocketraman.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id bOI8kYGkEqmn; Wed, 11 Nov 2009 10:23:26 -0500 (EST) Received: from [192.168.1.5] (zeus.rocketraman.com [192.168.1.5]) by apollo.rocketraman.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5BEA921C058C; Wed, 11 Nov 2009 10:23:26 -0500 (EST) User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.23 (X11/20090825) In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.2 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Thiago Farina wrote: > Hi, > > On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 2:08 PM, wrote: >> From: Raman Gupta >> >> The gitworkflows man page currently provides an overview of the workflows >> used by git.git itself to serve as inspiration for people to use when >> designing their own workflows. The current man page does a reasonable >> job at describing the development process, but it does not contain any >> guidance as to the workflow used for releases. Now add a basic >> introduction to the branch management required for a release, so that a >> reader may understand how the maint, master, next, and topic branches are >> affected. > Here > http://git.kernel.org/?p=git/git.git;a=blob;f=Checklist.txt;h=37745f39487537117fb7f3a9a6f5b8e7d989a884;hb=refs/heads/todo > there is a release checklist, maybe you could extend your patch to > include more information from this? Most of the checklist is specific to the git infrastructure rather than git branch management. The latter is the focus of the gitworkflows man page. The relevant items from checklist.txt (e.g. merge 'maint' to 'master') are already included in the patch. Cheers, Raman