Re: Reference for git.git release process

From: Andreas Ericsson <ae@op5.se>
Date: Mar 26, 2009, 08:05 UTC
Message-ID: <49CB3766.5090109@op5.se>
In-Reply-To: <7viqlxz9go.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>

Junio C Hamano wrote:

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> 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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