Best Practice for retagging tags

Mon Dec 19 18:54:43 UTC 2005

On Mon, 2005-12-19 at 18:52 +0100, Jochen Schmitt wrote:

> I have create a patch for Makefile.common which introduced a
> 'make retag' command. The advance of this command is, that you
> don't have the need to figure out the tag name, if you need to
> retag.

FWIW, I don't think making force-tagging easier is a good idea.  The
best practice for this would IMO be "don't do it, just bump release and
proceed as usual instead".