Re: any way to apply tag across all branches in repository?

From: Chris Friesen <cfriesen@nortel.com>
Date: May 19, 2009, 17:48 UTC
Message-ID: <4A12F0ED.4070707@nortel.com>
In-Reply-To: <Y0WmOpNg_9ptwbJ3VHYrzAgFtDvPi5pn4Tz-0w5Phhlo9frjieUaeA@cipher.nrlssc.navy.mil>

Brandon Casey wrote:

> If I understand you correctly, you are doing your primary development on
> the "main" branch and then merging this into the architecture specific
> branches which contain additional architecture specific changes.

Correct.

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> All you need to do is tag the "main" branch.  Actually, you are tagging
> the commit that the branch currently points at.  When this branch is
> merged into the other branches, they will also contain this commit, and
> 'git describe' will use the tag you created when generating the version
> string.

I think this would work if the most recent commit is on the main branch.

However, if I make a change on the arch-specific branch, then tag the main branch and merge it into the arch-specific branch, git tells me the arch-specific branch is already up-to-date and the tag doesn't get propagated.

Chris