Re: [boost] Re: Changes to release procedure

From: David Abrahams (dave_at_[hidden])
Date: 2002-10-02 07:24:15

From: "Remy Blank" <remy.blank_at_[hidden]>

> On Wed, 2 Oct 2002 09:58:51 +0100, Anthony Williams
<anthwil_at_[hidden]> wrote:
> > Markus Sch=F6pflin writes:

> > Dave's suggestion of using an "RC_whatever_last_merge" tag has the
advant=
> > age
> > that you can merge more than once from the same branch, provided you
move=
> >  the
> > tag after each merge. This looks like a good idea to me.
>
> I've been doing this for some time in the company I'm working for, and it
> proves to work quite efficiently. You just have to be careful when moving
> the "last merge" tag, as tags have no history (no way back in case of
error).

We are already using such a tag when changes are made on the release
candidate branch; I'm not proposing to change that. The only change I'm
proposing is that the entire release candidate branch should be tagged
immediately when the branch is created.

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