Hi Jim,
On Fri, Nov 6, 2009 at 8:17 AM, Jim Meyering wrote:
> Jim Meyering wrote:
>> FYI, I've just pushed this to coreutils, so that the following
>> from README-release is no longer manual:
>>
>> * Manually set the date, version number, and [stable/alpha/beta] on
>> line 3 of NEWS, then do
Thiago Farina wrote:
...
>>> build-aux/do-release-commit-and-tag 8.1 beta
>> No one objected, so I've moved it to gnulib as-is.
>
> I noticed that there is a build-aux in coreutils tree, but since there
> is no do-release-commit-and-tag in there, I think it could be like
> this:
>
> diff --git
;t particularly like names that start with "do-",
> but this isn't gnu-specific, so starting with gnu- seems less desirable.
> My bash function was just called "do-release", but that was misleading,
> since this is more like a pre-release step -- and easy to undo a
bash function was just called "do-release", but that was misleading,
since this is more like a pre-release step -- and easy to undo at that.
>From 6eb457eaba841cc331d566a3f3dd83fc4cc5d058 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jim Meyering
Date: Sat, 31 Oct 2009 11:08:03 +0100
Subject: [P
