great; thank you very much for the explanation Igor!

Kind regards,
Andreas

On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 05:12, Igor Vaynberg <[email protected]> wrote:
> when we start a build we create a branch, for example wicket-1.5.4 was
> built in the build/wicket-1.5.4 branch [4].  when the release vote
> passes the branch is tagged with a release tag, in case of 1.5.4 it
> was release/wicket-1.5.4 [5]
>
> you can see both the tags and branches in [3], in fact the 1.5.4
> release tag is the first tag listed...
>
> [4] 
> http://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf?p=wicket.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/build/wicket-1.5.4
> [5] 
> http://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf?p=wicket.git;a=commit;h=c39d0b3711e8e436dff3225094aab64b4ab52ad9
>
> -igor
>
> On Tue, Mar 6, 2012 at 8:00 PM, Andreas Pieber <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Hey guys,
>>
>> I'm curious about tagging and releasing with git now. I've done my
>> share of googling and the only things I came up with where [1] and
>> [2]. Well [1] is a little bit besides the topic but still right: there
>> is also no tag at the git-repos [3]. I would like to know when and how
>> releases are tagged. Feel free to point me somewhere with a RTFM :-)
>> Otherwise I would like to propose something like:
>>
>> Tag everything which is going into the vote process with -rc-X (e.g.
>> wicket-1.5.5-rc-1, wicket-1.5.5-rc-2, ...) and if a vote succeeds
>> (possibly double) tag it with wicket-1.5.5. That way it's always easy
>> to get the exact release sources using "git checkout wicket-VERSION".
>>
>> WDYT?
>>
>> Kind regards,
>> Andreas
>>
>> [1] 
>> http://apache-wicket.1842946.n4.nabble.com/Missing-1-5-4-Release-Tag-td4442362.html
>> [2] https://wicket.apache.org/contribute/release.html
>> [3] http://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/wicket.git

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