Best Practice for retagging tags

Jeremy Katz katzj at redhat.com
Mon Dec 19 21:00:25 UTC 2005


On Mon, 2005-12-19 at 20:54 +0200, Ville Skyttä wrote:
> 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".

I tend to agree, which is why I have thus far avoided committing any
patches that make force tagging easier :-)

Jeremy




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