[vlc-devel] Tagging start of 1.2.0 development

[Rafaël Carré]

On Tue, 02 Nov 2010 09:30:20 +0100
Rémi Denis-Courmont <remi at remlab.net> wrote:

> 
> On Tue, 2 Nov 2010 08:14:55 +0100, Rafaël Carré
> <rafael.carre at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I suggest we do:
> > git tag -m "Start of 1.2.0 development" 1.2.0-dev 9003bdea2d4
> > 
> > 9003bdea2d4 is the common ancestor to 1.2 and 1.1 as confirmed by 
> > "git merge-base 1.1.0 master"
> 
> By design of git, there may be more than one common ancestor, such
> that none of them are common ancestors of the others.
> This can happen if more than one independent branch are merged into
> both trees. In fact, I think this had happened between 0.9 and 1.0.

It does not really matter since the idea is to tag HEAD at the moment
we fork 1.X.git

> > Note this commit is already tagged as 1.1.0-pre1
> 
> > That way git-describe would show something like
> > 1.2.0-dev-2310-gef2ea79
> > instead of
> > 1.1.0-pre1-2310-gef2ea79
> > 
> > Any drawback that i didn't think about?
> 
> Are you sure that git will select the right tag in this case?

Yes but I need to verify why

In fact I noticed 1.1.0-pre1 was the same commit because git describe
showed the same number of commits (the 2310) when testing it (and it
showed 1.2.0-dev)

-- 
✍ Rafaël Carré ☺
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