Re: RFH: Where/How to setup RCS for new libfuse-ocaml package

[Goswin von Brederlow <goswin-v-b@web.de>]

Stefano Zacchiroli <zack@debian.org> writes:

> On Fri, Mar 06, 2009 at 02:52:31PM +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote:
>>  - tag for release
>>  - git push
>
> I haven't looked at your work-flow in detail yet, but just a technical
> comment to avoid we will remain without the needed stuff to build on
> git.d.o.
>
> That "git push" above should actually be two commands:
>
> - git push --all
> - git push --tags
>
> The former is needed to ensure you push all branches to alioth (or,
> instead of --all, the list of branches you want to push). The latter
> is needed to ensure you push your tags to alioth (yes, it is a git
> dumbness, reported upstream multiple times).

I noticed that too when i actualy tried it on a testrelease. Good catch.

> Also, note that the proper way of tagging is "git -a
> debian/1.2.3-4". If you use git-buildpackage --git-tag, it will do the
> right thing by default.
>
> Cheers.

git tag -a ... you mean.

Are git tags limited to the branch you tag in or are they global?

MfG
        Goswin