Releasing from Mercurial repo -- procedures?
Benson Margulies
bimargulies at gmail.com
Sat Feb 9 18:48:02 EST 2008
> Not the tagging: You create a named branch, make all the changes you
> need to do, cut the beta release from that. *Then* you merge your
> branch back into the mainline, and *then* tag on the mainline. (If you
> tag in the branch, the tag won't be visible on the mainline.)
>
This procedure seems to violate a configuration management
truth-in-labelling; you aren't putting the label on the exact source
code you built from.
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