[Scummvm-devel] Release 1.3.0 status -- branch

[Max Horn]

Am 01.05.2011 um 14:04 schrieb Willem Jan Palenstijn:

> On Sun, May 01, 2011 at 02:49:49PM +0300, Eugene Sandulenko wrote:
>> Hi Team,
>> 
>> It is time to branch 1.3.0 release.
>> 
>> I agree with Max, and this time we will go SVN style which is cherry
>> picking.
>> 
>> I just created branch-1-3-0 and bumped version on master.
> 
> Building on that, I have now also created and pushed the desc/* tags for this.
> This is how:
> 
> Find the commit that increases the version number, in this case 204a9c2e for
> 1.4.0git and 40df14a7 for 1.3.0pre. Then:
> 
> git tag -m "Mark 1.4.0git" desc/1.4.0git 204a9c2e
> git push origin tag desc/1.4.0git
> 
> git tag -m "Mark 1.3.0pre" desc/1.3.0pre 40df14a7
> git push origin tag desc/1.3.0pr
> 
> 
> 
> The purpose of this is the following:
> 
> $ git-describe
> desc/1.4.0git-1-g0ff4449
> 
> Which indicates I'm at 0ff4449, which is one commit ahead of the commit tagged
> desc/1.4.0git . This is used by Makefile.common to get a version string.

Can you please document this on <http://wiki.scummvm.org/index.php/HOWTO-Release>, so that it won't be forgotten in the future?

Thanks,
Max