Re: [boost] [git] nit in library release documentation

Subject: Re: [boost] [git] nit in library release documentation
From: Beman Dawes (bdawes_at_[hidden])
Date: 2014-01-14 14:07:33

On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 12:34 PM, Peter A. Bigot <pab_at_[hidden]> wrote:

> At https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/wiki/StartModMaint#
> Lightweightlibraryrelease there is:
>
> git tag -a mylib-1.2.0
> git push --tags mylib-1.2.0    # specific tag pushed to avoid pushing all
> local tags
>
> As discussed in a thread on module tagging, --tags should never be used
> with git push as it pushes all local tags to the remote repository (adding
> those that did not exist there).
>
> There are cases where you might want to do that, but for the specific
> situation of releasing a tagged library a sufficient and less risky command
> is:
>
> git push mylib-1.2.0    # specific tag pushed to avoid pushing all local
> tags
>

Fixed.

Thanks,

--Beman