KDE 4.7.2 (try#1) uploaded

[Yury G. Kudryashov]

Andreas Pakulat wrote:

> On 08.10.11 01:10:50, Nicolas Alvarez wrote:
>> Andras Mantia wrote:
>> > On Sunday, October 02, 2011 17:04:42 Dirk Mueller wrote:
>> >> Hi,
>> >> 
>> >> I just finished uploading KDE 4.7.2 tarballs. Unlike previous
>> >> tarballs, these have been consistently taken from KDE/4.7 branch in
>> >> git.
>> > 
>> > What does this mean, no 4.7.2 tag was created in git?
>> > I don't see anything like that with "git tag" in kdepim and would like
>> > to check if some bugfix made into 4.7.2 or not.
>> > dc60f1116dad12fbdd443a964d58eec7e5ed09fc (kdepim-runtime)
>> > 84edd007f903763b61296a84768e2f4c9f98113a (kdepimlibs)
>> 
>> Tags are created *after* the tarballs. If packagers find problems in a
>> non-final tarball, Dirk can release a new one, but tags are immutable,
>> so they should be created only once we're sure everything is okay.
> 
> Sorry thats wrong:
> 
> git tag -a 4.7.2
> <edit source file>
> git commit -a -m "Blah"
> git tag -f -a 4.7.2
> 
> works just fine and you can push the result without needing the
> force-parameter as long as the commit the tag points to now is a
> successor of the one it pointed to before.
This would not automagically change tags in all local clones (at least until 
their owners will `git pull` again).
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Yury G. Kudryashov,
mailto: urkud at mccme.ru