Re: Alpha releases: How to tag

Tom Lane wrote:
> Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net> writes:
>
>> Does it need a version number change? Maybe just a tag (no branch) is
>> all that is required.
>>
>
> I think that we do want the alpha releases to identify themselves as
> such. And we want a marker in CVS as to what state the alpha release
> corresponds to. Peter's label-and-undo approach seems like a kluge;
> and it doesn't scale to consider the possibility that we might
> want to re-release an alpha after fixing some particularly evil bug.
> A tag without a branch won't handle that either.
>
> I feel that making a branch is the way to go. If we try to get away
> with a shortcut, we'll probably regret it.
>
>
>

Yes, if that's what we want then definitely branch. I guess the branch
will (almost) only ever have exactly one commit on it.

cheers

andrew