From: Wesley J. Landaker <wjl@icecavern.net>
Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2011 21:24:14 GMT
Subject: Re: Symbolic 'references' in Git?
Message-ID: <201104141524.15212.wjl@icecavern.net>
In-Reply-To: <BANLkTinV8niLibzOQRVraYqwB0hKW1=r1w@mail.gmail.com>

On Thursday, April 14, 2011 14:30:59 Chris Patti wrote:
> We want a way to have our Bamboo configuration utilize a symbol to
> refer to 'latest release' 'latest patch' etc. in Git, rather than
> having to go in and change the actual branch name every time we ship a
> release and create a new one.
> 
> We thought about using something like:
> 
> git symbolic-ref -m'new next-release branch build for Bamboo'
> next-release release-3.15
> 
> However, this symbolic ref is only local to one repository, and we
> want it to be global across all of Bamboo.
> 
> Rather than resorting to manually copying the symbolic ref file
> around, from repo to repo, is there any way to make such a symbolic
> 'variable' global?

Why not just use a tag or a branch ?

git tag -F next-release release-3.15

  OR

git branch -D next-release
git branch next-release release-3.15

(I personally think branches are nicer for this since tags are "supposed" to 
be immutable.)