Releasing from Mercurial repo -- procedures?

[Michael Sperber]

Benson Margulies <bimargulies at gmail.com> writes:

>> 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.

No, you do.  The question is where you're putting the label itself.  You
want to put it in the mainline so you can see it from the mainline.  It
would still point into the branch.

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Cheers =8-} Mike
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