[FFmpeg-devel] Branchpoint tags

wm4 nfxjfg at googlemail.com
Mon Sep 15 14:13:27 CEST 2014


On Sun, 14 Sep 2014 23:36:14 +0200
Michael Niedermayer <michaelni at gmx.at> wrote:

> 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)
> 
> [...]

Don't know. Maybe "dev-n2.5" or "after-n2.5" I'm not sure.


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