[asterisk-dev] tags on the main branches [was: Re: Minor Release Branches]

[Tzafrir Cohen]

Off-topic:

On Tue, Dec 19, 2017 at 01:50:03PM -0700, George Joseph wrote:

> Thankfully we tag EVERYTHING! :)

asterisk(13)$ git describe 
13.15.0-rc1-908-ge31e3b581b

asterisk(14)$ git describe 
fatal: No tags can describe 'fb18797ae09a685ec71101499fb1c1c606b16397'.
Try --always, or create some tags.

asterisk(15)$ git describe 
fatal: No tags can describe 'd312068ee93ff8ce97b464f3c2ff3304e15cb3fe'.
Try --always, or create some tags.


I wasted half an hour yesterday trying to find out why a build sis not
switch from master to 13, only to realize that the name of the git
branch in the version string is always "master".

We tag everything. But only well after it was branched from the main
branch.

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