On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 10:38:47PM +0100, Andreas Tille wrote: > > the "source". That works great as long as you have them. Many projects > > on github don't have them. github offers a mechanism that produces > > tarballs for every tag in the repository. making a release is as simple > > as 'git tag best-ever; git push best-ever'. > > > I probably need to get more comfortable with git to really like this.
People best be not fooled by how convenient git makes it to version control source code. Tagging a tree and pushing that tagged state-of-tree to some public repository is NOT a proper release of a respectable software. Such things can be worked with, sure, but it's not a "proper" release. Karsten -- GPG key ID E4071346 @ gpg-keyserver.de E167 67FD A291 2BEA 73BD 4537 78B9 A9F9 E407 1346 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
