[Libguestfs] Proposal to start tagging releases in git with v<VERSION>

[Richard W.M. Jones]

On Wed, May 04, 2016 at 04:00:24PM +0200, Pino Toscano wrote:
> On Wednesday 04 May 2016 14:12:05 Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> > On Wed, May 04, 2016 at 02:17:00PM +0200, Pino Toscano wrote:
> > > On Tuesday 03 May 2016 21:27:47 Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > For historical reasons that don't really matter now, we currently
> > > > tag all releases with just the version number, eg:
> > > > 
> > > >   commit 6b48977cb7100e4f214b189052d4f0bf61523d11 (HEAD -> master, tag: 1.33.26, origin/master, origin/HEAD)
> > > >   Author: Richard W.M. Jones <rjones at redhat.com>
> > > >   Date:   Tue May 3 14:49:59 2016 +0100
> > > > 
> > > >       Version 1.33.26.
> > > > 
> > > > Of course this isn't the way that git versions are normally tagged.
> > > > The normal convention is to use "v<VERSION>" (eg. "v1.33.26").
> > > > 
> > > > I propose that I start tagging new releases this way (see the patch
> > > > below).  This shouldn't be controversial.
> > > > 
> > > > The question is should I tag new releases with the "old style" tags?
> > > > I'd prefer not to.  Should I go back and add "v<VERSION>" tags to all
> > > > the old releases?  Again, I'd prefer not to, but could do that if
> > > > anyone thinks it's necessary.
> > > 
> > > I've seen both ways used IMHO equally, so I don't have a strong
> > > preference.
> > > 
> > > Just wondering whether the right moment for changing tag naming would
> > > be when tagging the .0 of a new series.
> > 
> > Perhaps, but I'd say an argument against doing it for a .0 release
> > would be that it lets us test that our CI & build tools work now
> > during the development phase.  (Unless you mean .0 of the next
> > development release, which punts the whole thing far into the future.)
> 
> My point was that each series had a coherent naming for all its tags.
> Be it because the switch is done after branch cutting, or that
> older/newer releases are tagged in the other way, it's the same for me.

I pushed the patch.  I will go and add the v-tags for all releases in
the 1.33 branch (but not any earlier branches), which I think should
satisfy this.

Rich.

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