On Oct 21, 2011, at 2:23 PM, Robert Newson wrote:
> In all vote emails, we include the commit id that the release
> artifacts were built from, but create no tag at all.
>
> When the release passes the votes, we create the tag, with its final
> name, against that commit id, and push it at the same time we upload
> the artifact to the mirrors.
>
> To obviate any concern about stale 1.1.1 tags in downstream repos, we
> could, for this release only, add a 1.1.1-final tag as an unambiguous
> tag, but only *after* the release is official.
>
> Stated another way; we make each tag exactly once, and refer to the
> build by its commit id until then. Since a commit id in git dictates
> the precise state of the entire tree this is safe.
Makes sense to me. "git describe" instead of plain commit IDs is
pretty good for this as well since they'll be slightly easier to talk about,
but same effect.
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dustin sallings
