Re: add git tags to main branch for each ELPA release

[jfbu]

Hello Arash,

Le 12/07/2024 à 18:18, Arash Esbati a écrit :
> Hi Jean-François,
>
> jfbu <jfbu@free.fr> writes:
>
> > I have noticed the "main" branch has a number of 14.0.x ELPA releases,
> > but does not have tags like on master branch for the releases
> > announced on auctex-announces.
> >
> > If it is not too much inconvenient would you consider adding such git
> > tags? For example it may help for git bisect.
>
> Do you think about a
>
>    git tag -a release_14_x_y
>
> on main after every ELPA release?

Yes exactly something like that.  With `-a` you will have to add
some commit-like message.  In my private projects I use lightweight
tags without `-a`, but as they are private in the sense of not
being shared at all, I don't care so much that such tags are
easily deleted and displaced, actually I find this useful for
example for a LaTeX package where I had used `v` prefix
in all tags and then one day decided to remove it.  But for
AUCTeX probably annotated tags are better indeed.  The Git docs
say

> Annotated tags are meant for release while lightweight tags are meant for 
> private or temporary object labels. For this reason, some git commands for 
> naming objects (like git describe) will ignore lightweight tags by default.

So yes, `git -a`.

> I don't think this is a big deal.

+1

Best, Jean-François

>  What do others think?
>
> Best, Arash