Re: [RFE] Add minimal universal release management capabilities to GIT

From: Jacob Keller <jacob.keller@gmail.com>
Date: Oct 24, 2017, 07:38 UTC
Message-ID: <7DC2A15E-0B47-4398-8B62-DC39C5EA1343@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <1760206035.56692.1508594211365.JavaMail.zimbra@laposte.net>

On October 21, 2017 6:56:51 AM PDT, nicolas.mailhot@laposte.net wrote:

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>> git tags ?
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>Too loosely defined to be relied on by project-agnostic tools. That's
>what most tools won't ever try to use those. Anything you will define
>around tags as they stand is unlikely to work on the project of someone
>else

I think that this could easily be built by a separate script which provides git release command line and uses tags under the hood in a well formed way. I wouldn't say that the method outlined here works for all projects but I do agree it's fairly common and could work for many projects

I think most large projects already use annotated tags and tho they have their own format it works pretty well.

Showing a tool that could help projects create more standardized release tags would be helpful.

I think such a tool could already be built, scripted to create annotated tags with a well formed name. I don't think you necessarily need to have this in core git, tho I do see that your main goal is to piggyback on git itselfs popularity

Thanks Jake

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