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Re: git tag for 2.29.1 release
- From: Richard Biener <rguenther at suse dot de>
- To: Nick Clifton <nickc at redhat dot com>
- Cc: binutils at sourceware dot org
- Date: Wed, 4 Oct 2017 09:54:25 +0200 (CEST)
- Subject: Re: git tag for 2.29.1 release
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On Tue, 3 Oct 2017, Nick Clifton wrote:
> Hi Richard,
>
> > No, there appear to be many more changes in the tarball vs. The tag. Just diff yourselves.
>
> Hmmm, this might not be easy. Please could you try the tag
> "binutils-2_29_1.1". This should be closer to the release tarballs but
> it is still not perfect. I am not sure that I can get it any closer.
> (If you know how I can, then please tell me. I am not very good with
> git).
Yes, that works for me.
> I used a new tag name rather than moving the old one as this was the method recommended by the
> git tag help page. I did not want to risk breaking things for people who have already used the
> binutils-2_29_1 tag.
OTOH the old tag doesn't correspond to the release -- it misses fixes that
are in the release tarball, PR21441, PR22150, PR22048, PR22148 and
PR21924.
But it's of course up to you whether to move the tag or not.
Richard.
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