From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Git transition checklist Date: Thu, 09 Jan 2014 08:25:36 +0200 Message-ID: <83lhypeknz.fsf@gnu.org> References: <20140108135200.8ECF9380834@snark.thyrsus.com> <837gaafij8.fsf@gnu.org> <20140108201104.GC5374@thyrsus.com> <83txdedxzw.fsf@gnu.org> <20140108202824.GA6498@thyrsus.com> <83ppo2dw2b.fsf@gnu.org> <20140108212600.GA6976@thyrsus.com> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1389248760 28088 80.91.229.3 (9 Jan 2014 06:26:00 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 9 Jan 2014 06:26:00 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: esr@thyrsus.com Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jan 09 07:26:06 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1W1948-0004lX-G2 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 09 Jan 2014 07:26:04 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:50283 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W1948-0003Xd-0M for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 09 Jan 2014 01:26:04 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:44953) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W1940-0003Wd-JM for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 09 Jan 2014 01:26:01 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W193m-0004Hp-01 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 09 Jan 2014 01:25:56 -0500 Original-Received: from mtaout22.012.net.il ([80.179.55.172]:33816) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W193l-0004Hj-OF for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 09 Jan 2014 01:25:41 -0500 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout22.012.net.il by a-mtaout22.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0MZ400600F2FL800@a-mtaout22.012.net.il> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 09 Jan 2014 08:25:40 +0200 (IST) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by a-mtaout22.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0MZ4006K8F6SEI80@a-mtaout22.012.net.il>; Thu, 09 Jan 2014 08:25:40 +0200 (IST) In-reply-to: <20140108212600.GA6976@thyrsus.com> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 X-Received-From: 80.179.55.172 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:167855 Archived-At: > Date: Wed, 8 Jan 2014 16:26:00 -0500 > From: "Eric S. Raymond" > Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org > > Eli Zaretskii : > > > Huh? Emacs release don't happen so often, or with so little ceremony, > > > that we can expect that step to get skipped once it becomes policy. > > > > Policy or not, we had this kind of mistakes in the past (releases and > > branches that did not get proper tags). I see no reason why these > > will not be repeated. > > Maybe not, but mussing a tag is also very easy to cirrect retroactively. But until it is corrected, the revision descriptions based on tags lie about where they are, unless you count the commits by hand to compare them with.