Re: How to add daily tags for a central repo?

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Jun 2, 2010, 04:40 UTC
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Roy Lee <roylee17@gmail.com> writes:

>> * Create a tag for the state of a ref (such as HEAD) on the central repo
>> at a specific date and time.
>
> Yes, for the daily build stuff.

If this is really "the daily build", the easiest is to

 - arrange the "daily build" environment to be kept up-to-date (either
   developers will be pushing into it, or there is another canonical
   central repository developer pushes into, and the daily build
   repository pulls from that canonical central repository via cron just
   before starting to build);

 - tag the version that is being built; and

 - do the "daily build".

Even if the automated "daily build" runs an hour after midnight, I wouldn't imagine that you would want to grab the version that was the latest as of midnight, building that slightly stale one, excluding the development that happened within an our since that version.