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Re: [PATCHv2] Update gitworkflows man page to include release workflow

From
RGRaman Gupta <rocketraman@fastmail.fm>
Date
Nov 11, 2009, 15:23 UTC
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Thiago Farina wrote:
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> Hi,
> 
> On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 2:08 PM,  <rocketraman@fastmail.fm> wrote:
>> From: Raman Gupta <raman@rocketraman.com>
>>
>> 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

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  1. rocketraman@fastmail.fmNov 10, 2009
  2. [PATCHv2] Update gitworkflows man page to include release workflowrocketraman@fastmail.fm, Nov 10, 2009
  3. Štěpán NěmecNov 10, 2009
  4. Raman GuptaNov 10, 2009
  5. Thiago FarinaNov 11, 2009
  6. Raman GuptaNov 11, 2009
  7. Junio C HamanoNov 11, 2009
  8. Raman GuptaNov 12, 2009
  9. Junio C HamanoNov 12, 2009
  10. Thomas RastNov 12, 2009
  11. Raman GuptaNov 12, 2009
  12. Thomas RastNov 11, 2009
  13. Thomas RastNov 12, 2009

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