[FFmpeg-devel] Branchpoint tags

Michael Niedermayer michaelni at gmx.at
Sun Sep 14 23:36:14 CEST 2014


On Sun, Sep 14, 2014 at 07:31:42PM +0200, wm4 wrote:
> On Sun, 14 Sep 2014 19:12:56 +0200
> Michael Niedermayer <michaelni at gmx.at> wrote:
> 
> > Hi
> > 
> > Should we add git tags to the revissions where releases are branched
> > off ?
> > 
> > that way a "git describe" on master would look like:
> > n2.5-dev-3-gb227be3
> > instead of:
> > n2.0-11670-gb227be3
> > 
> > (or any other tag than n2.5-dev that we choose)
> > 
> > it would not affect the "./version.sh" output
> > 
> 
> That sounds like an interesting idea. But just using the release tag
> name and appending "-dev" might be harmful for scripts which try to
> automatically pickup the latest version or such.

what tag name would you suggest ?
(note we cannot really change it once we create and push these tags)

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Michael     GnuPG fingerprint: 9FF2128B147EF6730BADF133611EC787040B0FAB

Its not that you shouldnt use gotos but rather that you should write
readable code and code with gotos often but not always is less readable
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