hi, I noticed that uimaFIT still hasn't made copies (or renamed) its tags for
things released since moving to GIT.
Is this planned to be done?
-M
On 10/29/2019 10:10 PM, Marshall Schor wrote:
> I think this problem is avoidable, if we do not delete the other tag.
>
> -----------------
>
> Here's a may-not-too-complex way to add a rel/style tag after a vote passes.
> It can be done with two command:
>
> git tag -m "proj-name-1.2.3 rc1 released" rel/proj-name-x.y.z
> proj-name-x.y.z^{}
>
> git push origin rel/proj-name-x.y.z
>
> How to understand the above commands:
>
> 1) git tag: create a tag.
> 2) -m "message"
> make an "annotated tag" that includes this message
> 3) rel/proj-name-x.y.z that is the name of the "new" tag to create
> 4) proj-name-x.y.z that is the name of an existing reference tag
> 5) ^{} this is a git syntax for "peeling the onion" and it means to
> change the reference from the annotated tag proj-name-x.y.z to
> the commit the tag is annotating.
>
> You can use the git show ...tag-name... on both tags to confirm they point to
> the same commit hash.
>
> 6) the 2nd command just pushes the new tag that was created to the upstream
> repo.
>
>
> -Marshall
>
> On 10/29/2019 5:36 PM, Richard Eckart de Castilho wrote:
>> On 29. Oct 2019, at 22:04, Richard Eckart de Castilho <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>>>> Meanwhile, none of our previous releases that came over from SVN were
>>>> named this
>>>> way, so they're not protected, but perhaps that's not too important,
>>>> because
>>>> they're in SVN in read-only status.
>>> I don't think it would hurt if we renamed these tags.
>> Well, there is one issue - but I don't think it is of much practical
>> relevance:
>>
>> During the Maven release process, a "<tag>" element is added to "<scm>"
>> section
>> of the POM. This points to the tag that is created by Maven during the
>> release.
>> If we rename the tag after the release, the element points to a non-existing
>> tag.
>>
>> The Hadoop project (per your pointer) doesn't seem to use the Maven release
>> plugin
>> and their POMs don't seem to include an SCM section.
>>
>> Do you think it is a problem if the "<tag>" element misses the "rel/" due to
>> a tag
>> renaming after the release?
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> -- Richard
