20 Dec
2012
20 Dec
'12
10:25 a.m.
On Dec 20, 2012, at 2:59 AM, Juha Heinanen <jh(a)tutpro.com> wrote:
i don't mind tagging versions as long i don't
need to cherry pick
anything to them. it must be enough to cherry pick to x.y branches.
As far as most git operations are concerned, tags are just another reference to a point in
the tree, like a commit identifier. Using tags won't change the current development
model at all.
I'd like to suggest that if we begin using tags, which I strongly support, we also
start GPG-signing those tags. Git does support lightweight tags, but they're purely
pointers to specific commits in the tree history. They don't support signing,
aren't checksummed, and won't have a tagging message (e.g., "Release
3.4.0").
Recent versions of git support signed commits, as well, which might also be valuable for
the project, given the large number of people with commit access.
andrew