okay, after a long debate (not myself) on
http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/SCM-444
the property pushChanges on maven-release-plugin was invented and is
usable in version 2.1.


On Fri, Nov 26, 2010 at 2:14 PM, Toni Menzel <[email protected]> wrote:
> Agree, with both Andreas ( need more advanced branching policy ) &
> Guilaume ( need to -re-read) ;)
>
> One of the side effects that i was just looking in are much more
> trivial and related to maven-release-plugin i guess:
>
> I noticed during pax exam 1.2.3 release process that stuff is pushed
> automatically on the remote side, which i actually don't want. Any
> simple hint of archiving this ?
>
> Toni
>
> On Thu, Nov 25, 2010 at 11:19 AM, Guillaume Nodet <[email protected]> wrote:
>> On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 03:59, Andreas Pieber <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> Hey guys,
>>>
>>> I've seen that there are no tags of the current releases at pax-web. 
>>> @Guillaume
>>> you may like to push them too? (git push --tags)
>>
>> Done
>>
>>>
>>> BTW @Release-Branches and Maven (paxweb-0.7.x). Thre is some quirks between 
>>> the
>>> way the maven release plugin and git works with this classical svn model...
>>> (This is some git-problem now; I hope I can keep it simple; please ask if 
>>> not
>>> :)).
>>>
>>> Ok lets start: There are two possible workflows with git and support 
>>> (AFAIK) (these
>>> branches with the x in the version number; e.g. paxweb-0.7.x) branches:
>>>
>>> a) commit changes on support branch OR master and cherry-pick them to the 
>>> other
>>> side.
>>>
>>> (+) no pain, simply pick required commits
>>> (-) loosing history between fix on master and fix on support branch (a 
>>> cherry
>>> pick creates a NEW commit (new parents and childs --> new sha1 --> new 
>>> commit))
>>> (-) cherry-picks with "more" commits are either painful often execution of
>>> cherry-pick or quite complex git-rebase actions
>>>
>>> b) either change directly support branch and merge it into master (or
>>> better) branch off support branch and merge into master and support.
>>>
>>> (+) history is kept
>>> (+) very easy to handle
>>> (-) many merge nodes
>>>
>>> BUT using (b) there's a serious problem now with the way git (and the
>>> mvn-release-plugin) works. (1) you really have to start chagnes you want to 
>>> have
>>> in the master based on the support branch; otherwise the "back-merge" will 
>>> also
>>> include all other commits done in the master; and I'm sure we do not want 
>>> that.
>>> (2) if we directly do the work in the support branch and merge this one 
>>> back to
>>> the master you (2a) also add all other changes you've done to the support 
>>> branch
>>> (ok, this is typically not so bad because it only reflects that there 
>>> should be
>>> no infrastructural changes in support branches anyway) BUT (2b) you also 
>>> apply
>>> the changes in the pom files (and this is a real pain). I hope that the 
>>> second
>>> problem is clear. You apply the commits version increased, version back to
>>> snapshot commits which are afterwards merged into the master and change the
>>> version there too. At openengsb.org (for example) we solve this problem now 
>>> by
>>> using a support-dev and support-release branch. The support-release branch 
>>> is
>>> not merged back into the support-dev branch and the releases of the
>>> support-branch are done by mergeing the support-dev branch into the
>>> support-release branch and doing the release there. The work is going on in
>>> support-dev till the next release where we merge support-dev again into
>>> support-release (you may like to take a look at [1] to see what I'm talking
>>> about).
>>>
>>> In a nutshell: model (a) is easier but really has some quirckses about the
>>> history (IMHO) and can become quite unlogical in the git-way-of-doing 
>>> things.
>>> Model (b) requeires much more discipline by developers but produces (IMHO) 
>>> the
>>> better outputs in history graphs and understanding the history of a project.
>>>
>>> Sorry for the long post, but I really thing we should discuss this :)
>>
>> I guess I need to re-read it ... I'm not very used to pure git dev yet ...
>>
>>>
>>> kind regards,
>>> andreas
>>>
>>> [1] https://github.com/openengsb/openengsb/network
>>>
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>>
>>
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