[MTT devel] MTT: let's use git tags

2014-06-24 Thread Jeff Squyres (jsquyres)
The topic came up today that MTT sometimes has bugs, particularly w.r.t. ongoing MTT development. It seems like we should use git tags to let the OMPI/testing community know which tag they should be using (vs. HEAD). To that end, I have created a "v3.0.0" tag that exists before the controversia

Re: [MTT devel] MTT: let's use git tags

2014-06-24 Thread Christoph Niethammer
Hi, As an alternative idea: What about using branches to mark "stable" and "development"? Tags are for fixed versions and so users will not receive updates unless they update their update scripts manually?! When "development" is stable just merge into "stable". Regards Christoph PS: For all in

Re: [MTT devel] MTT: let's use git tags

2014-06-24 Thread Gilles Gouaillardet
+1 for using branches : branch usage is less error prone plus git makes branching unexpensive. as far as i am concerned, i'd rather have the default master branch is the for the "stable" version and have one branch called devel (or dev, or whatever) : - git clone => get the stable (aka master) bra