How we use Git

Gervase Markham gerv at mozilla.org
Mon Nov 3 13:50:42 UTC 2014


On 31/10/14 18:29, Mark Côté wrote:
> Almost.  You would do up to 'cd bugzilla', then
> 
> git checkout bugzilla-4.4.6
> 
> 'bugzilla-4.4.6' is a tag on the last commit included in the release.
> We create similar tags for all releases.

You see, I did not know that. That is important information :-)

So your "Almost" is actually a "not really"!

I will update the new docs accordingly.

How about this for a suggestion? We currently tag the first in the "4.4"
series as "bugzilla-4.4". Would it be better to tag it as
"bugzilla-4.4.0", either instead or additionally? That would make
instructions on how to pull a particular version easier to write,
because you wouldn't need to special-case the first release.

You see, it's not immediately clear to an observer if
git checkout bugzilla-4.4
is pulling the latest 4.4 or the original release of 4.4.

> Let me know if anything is still unclear.  Btw, for anyone still
> confused about git, I *highly* recommend the book Pro Git, which is
> available for free at http://git-scm.com/book/. 

I've been reading O'Reillys "Version control with Git" which is also
very good.

Gerv

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