From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2011 23:00:58 GMT
Subject: Re: Symbolic 'references' in Git?
Message-ID: <7vd3kofnf9.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <BANLkTik5tD5UOrDkpL8ahEgwFjT+suHACQ@mail.gmail.com>

Chris Patti <cpatti@gmail.com> writes:

>> git branch -D next-release
>> git branch next-release release-3.15
>>
>> (I personally think branches are nicer for this since tags are "supposed" to
>> be immutable.)
>
> Won't either of those things create a 'next-release' that's frozen in
> time where the release-3.15 branch is *right now*?

I suspect that most people go about this the other way around.  You keep
the next-release branch that goes forward, and your automated process
would follow that one.  When you really cut a release, you tag the tip of
next-release, i.e. "git tag v3.15 next-release", to give it a name.