On 15.12.2017 16:31, Julian Foad wrote: > Julian Foad wrote: >> I started writing a create-a-release-branch script to automate the >> part of the procedure documented in >> http://subversion.apache.org/docs/community-guide/releasing.html#release-branches >> >> Attached, in early draft form: >> tools/dist/create-minor-release-branch.py > [...] >> Suggestions invited. > > This script is now committed at > tools/dist/create-minor-release-branch.py > > When it runs 'svn checkout' it adds '-r {2017-12-01}', in order to > test how it would have worked to create the 1.10 release branch. It > uses a date there rather than a revision number because multiple > repositories are involved. > > When it wants to runs 'svn commit' and server-side 'svn copy', > currently it just prints these commands and does not run them. > > Both of these facilities for testing are currently hard-coded. It > needs a way to enable/disable test mode from the command line.
Wouldn't it make sense for this to be part of release.py? -- Brane
