[parted-devel] notes about parted-1.8.1

[David Cantrell]

Otavio Salvador wrote:
> David Cantrell <dcantrell at redhat.com> writes:
> 
>> 3) I then make a new branch based on that tag (git checkout -b 
>> parted-X.Y.Z vX.Y.Z).  Why?  git doesn't support checking out
>> arbitrary tags later on.
> 
> You don't need todo it. Basically stable-1.8.x is your development
> branch and after you tag it, it's on same state then your tag.
> 
>> 4) I do the release using the copy off the branch I just made.
>>
>> The parted-X.Y.Z branches can effectively be thought of as tags in
>> this context.
> 
> It's useless and wrong. Use git tag only.
> 
> You can force the stable-1.8.x to be checked out at state of one tag
> and it's enough if you need to use it as codebase for something later.

I *never* could find anything in the git documentation to explicitly 
check out a tag.  The only documentation I can find explains how to tag, 
but not check out a specific tag.

How do you do this?

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David Cantrell
Red Hat / Westford, MA