From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: =?utf-8?Q?=C3=93scar_Fuentes?= Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Emacs 26.2 RC1 is out! Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2019 15:45:53 +0100 Message-ID: <87h8bwqo9q.fsf@telefonica.net> References: <87o965nq4q.fsf@petton.fr> <87ftrgod5o.fsf@petton.fr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: blaine.gmane.org; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:195.159.176.226"; logging-data="130479"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@blaine.gmane.org" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.1.90 (gnu/linux) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Mar 21 15:47:10 2019 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1h6yyM-000Xnq-Gx for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 21 Mar 2019 15:47:10 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:38699 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1h6yyL-0001dT-HI for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 21 Mar 2019 10:47:09 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:42743) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1h6yxI-00017D-0e for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 21 Mar 2019 10:46:07 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1h6yxG-0004D5-Tv for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 21 Mar 2019 10:46:03 -0400 Original-Received: from [195.159.176.226] (port=53974 helo=blaine.gmane.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1h6yxG-0004Al-Fy for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 21 Mar 2019 10:46:02 -0400 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1h6yxE-000WTz-74 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 21 Mar 2019 15:46:00 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Cancel-Lock: sha1:pwhTUbHBTRDEzHyU1RM3wmqgiIo= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 195.159.176.226 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 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" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:234466 Archived-At: Andy Moreton writes: > On Thu 21 Mar 2019, Nicolas Petton wrote: > >> Philippe Vaucher writes: >> >>> Is there a branch or a tag on the repository reflecting this version? I >>> couldn't find any, sorry if I missed it. >> >> As it is a release candidate, the tarball contains some changes related >> to the Emacs version being 26.2 and its release date (currently set to >> the 27th) that should not be pushed yet. > > A tarball for distribution should not contain anything that has not > been committed to version control. +1 > If you have content that you do not want to appear (yet) on the release > branch, then make a branch for the release candidate, tag a commit on > that branch and the checkout that tag to build the tarball. +2 OTOH, it is very important to test the tarball itself. Those who check out a tag from VC, build and test are doing useful work, but what they are testing is not what is released.