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List:       moblin-dev
Subject:    [Moblin Dev] Tagging projects in git
From:       steve.magoun () canonical ! com (Steve Magoun)
Date:       2007-11-15 8:50:42
Message-ID: 4D171577-41A6-4AA9-8690-551788FD75DF () canonical ! com
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Project maintainers at moblin.org:

It would be a big help if you tagged your git trees when releasing a  
new version. This would allow people to pull the git tree and easily  
checkout the source used to build a specific version.

For example, when releasing moblin-media 0.19, tag the git tree  
'moblin-media-0.19' or something else descriptive. Later on when  
someone wants to get the source for moblin-media-0.19, they can run  
'git pull --tags' then 'git checkout moblin-foo-0.19' to see + work  
on the code for that specific version of moblin-media.

Right now it's a tedious process to find the source associated with a  
specific version of a package - you have to search through all the  
changelog commits to find the one that corresponds to a specific  
release, find the SHA-1 sum of that commit, then checkout the source  
from git. Adding a tag to each release will fix that problem.

The process to add a tag + push it up to the repository is simple:

git tag -a moblin-media-0.19
git push --tags <remoterepository>

I notice that mobile-browser and xf86-video-psb are already being  
tagged - thank you!


Steve

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