[Remind-Fans] Git branches (was Re: First release candidate of Remind 03.03.12)

[Justin Alcorn]

Oh!  Thank you.  I had read about tags but just assumed that 'master' was
the current released version and didn't realize that I had the code in my
clone.

Thanks for the explanation.
-- 
Justin B. Alcorn
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On Sat, Jan 22, 2022 at 8:59 PM <taekoocair at wilsonb.com> wrote:

> Branches are moving targets, in a sense. The code state they can point to
> can
> change at any time as the branch accumulates commits. That doesn't really
> make
> sense for a release, which should point to the codebase at a specific
> commit.
> That's where git tags come in. Tags are essentially immutable pointers to
> git
> commits.
>
> It looks ilke Dianne has tagged this release candidate as 03.03.12-RC1,
> which
> you can checkout just like a branch. To see the entire (voluminous!) list
> of
> tags, check out `git tag`.
>
>
> In fact tags are just tag objects sitting in the git object store! If
> you're
> really interested, play with the `git cat-file` command to see the
> contents of
> this object: i.e. git cat-file -p 03.03.12-RC1. You can see it contains a
> reference to the commit where Dianne bumped the version number.
>
> Happy hacking!
>
>
> Justin Alcorn via Remind-fans <remind-fans at lists.skoll.ca> wrote:
> > Makes sense. I clone the repository and I figured I could just switch to
> > the rc branch and compile, and was scratching my head when it wasn't
> there.
> >
> > On Sat, Jan 22, 2022, 6:15 PM Dianne Skoll via Remind-fans <
> > remind-fans at lists.skoll.ca> wrote:
> >
> > > On Sat, 22 Jan 2022 12:53:53 -0500
> > > Justin Alcorn <justin at jalcorn.net> wrote:
> > >
> > > > I noticed you don't put the rc on a branch.  Just curious, since I
> > > > got out of development before git (hell, before CVS) and I'm still
> > > > learning git and modern development techniques - why is that?
> > >
> > > Well, Remind has only one developer, so I don't really see much point
> > > in branching.
> > >
> > > In my day job and in other situations where I work with other
> developers,
> > > we make heavy use of feature and bugfix branches.
> > >
> > > Regards,
> > >
> > > Dianne.
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