Re: Standardizing the layout of git packaging repositories
On Sun, 17 Aug 2014, Thomas Goirand wrote:
> > Obviously, when upstream are already doing everything correctly, creating
> > the upstream/<version> tag should not become some administrative chore but
> > it could be done automatically as part of a some "gbp upstream-merge
> > <upstream-tag>" command for example.
>
> Ah, that's an interesting topic! :)
>
> Often, upstream are using v1.2.3. Previously, I was doing, in
> debian/gbp.conf:
> upstream-tag = v%(version)s
>
> But then I decided it was really annoying, and since, I just do:
>
> git tag 1.2.3 v1.2.3
>
> The very good thing is that, since the tag points to the same object,
> version 1.2.3 is also PGP signed, just like v1.2.3! :)
Oooh! That's a _very_ nice trick, and very important information!
Thank you for sharing it!
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