HACKING: add more explicit git branch/tag instructions

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Ryan Lortie 2007-09-13 12:42:32 -04:00
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2007-09-13 Ryan Lortie <desrt@desrt.ca>
* HACKING: add more explicit git branch/tag instructions
2007-09-13 Ryan Lortie <desrt@desrt.ca>
migrate from cvs to git (cvs2svn -> git-svnimport).

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@ -97,7 +97,9 @@ To make a release of D-Bus, do the following:
release! The idea is that git has a newer version number
than anything released.
- push your changes to the central repository
- push your changes to the central repository with "git-push"
- push your new tag, too: "git-push origin dbus-X.Y.Z"
- scp your tarball to freedesktop.org server and copy it
to /srv/dbus.freedesktop.org/www/releases/dbus. This should
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The branch name should be dbus-X.Y-branch which is a branch that has
releases versioned X.Y.Z
To branch, add a tag to the common ancestor:
git tag dbus-X.Y-branchpoint
then create the branch:
git branch dbus-X.Y-branch
To branch:
git branch dbus-X.Y-branch
and upload the branch tag to the server:
git-push origin dbus-X.Y-branch
Note that dbus-X.Y-branchpoint may not tag the same revision as the
dbus-X.Y.0 release, since we may not branch immediately.
To develop in this branch:
git-checkout dbus-X.Y-branch
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