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Re: Deleting git tags?
- From: "Carlos O'Donell" <carlos at systemhalted dot org>
- To: Roland McGrath <roland at hack dot frob dot com>
- Cc: Jim Meyering <jim at meyering dot net>, libc-alpha at sourceware dot org
- Date: Mon, 9 Jul 2012 10:22:13 -0400
- Subject: Re: Deleting git tags?
- References: <20120626185613.GA7270@lios><20120627004758.EC61B2C099@topped-with-meat.com><CADZpyizTCDQoSo9Y0erMTwCnxnjAM8tns4-6N0UmzbfbEr3-+g@mail.gmail.com><20120702170030.3C83B2C075@topped-with-meat.com>
On Mon, Jul 2, 2012 at 1:00 PM, Roland McGrath <roland@hack.frob.com> wrote:
>> Snapshot tags are used to mark releases being delivered to the
>> translation team. Snapshot tags are of the form {{{glibc-X.Y.Z.DATE}}}
>> where {{{DATE}}} is {{{YYYYMMDD}}} e.g. {{{20120626}}}. Snapshots of
>> trunk always start with {{{90}}} for the value of {{{Z}}} e.g.
>> {{{glibc-2.15.90.20120626}}}.
>
> I think these should be non-signed, non-annotated tags so they don't
> interfere with 'git describe'.
That seems like a sane thing to do.
I've updated the wiki to say this:
http://sourceware.org/glibc/wiki/Release#Translations
Cheers,
Carlos.