[Bf-committers] Revisions for the 2.70a release

[Sergey Sharybin]

You can create a branch based on the tag. And we never did testbuilds of
'a' releases anyway.


On Tue, Mar 25, 2014 at 11:19 PM, Martijn Berger
<martijn.berger at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hi Sergey,
>
> I am no expert by my understanding has always been that a tag is meant to
> refer to a commit. And that a branch is somehow different from this and is
> more like a line of commits. Is it possible to make test-builds of  2.70(a)
> as it is no envisioned or does it only exist in the form of the wiki page
> that holds a list of candidates to be back-ported ?
> It might be a semantic discussion but I would like to just be able to
> checkout 2.70 + all fixes and make a test build of it. And in the future
> maybe even do back-porting of fixes even if mainline has moved on.
>
> thx for your patience in explaining all this.
>
> Martijn
>
>
>
> On Tue, Mar 25, 2014 at 6:07 PM, Sergey Sharybin <sergey.vfx at gmail.com
> >wrote:
>
> > We've got an annotated tag which isn't really different from the branch
> > you're suggesting to have.
> >
> >
> > On Tue, Mar 25, 2014 at 10:59 PM, Martijn Berger
> > <martijn.berger at gmail.com>wrote:
> >
> > > Hi everyone,
> > >
> > > About the back-porting of patches. Is there a good reason we do not
> have
> > a
> > > '2.70-stable' branch on which we can back-port all these.
> > > Now that we have git i think that is would not cost us much and that we
> > > stand much to gain from implementing this.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > On Tue, Mar 25, 2014 at 4:53 PM, Sergey Sharybin <sergey.vfx at gmail.com
> > > >wrote:
> > >
> > > > Hey,
> > > >
> > > > Still don't really think doing 2.71 a correction release is a good
> > idea,
> > > > too much quite WIP things in the code atm anyway. So thinking of
> rather
> > > > doing 'a' release.
> > > >
> > > > Here's the page with the revisions which i consider to be back ported
> > to
> > > > the 'a' release:
> > > >
> > > >
> > >
> >
> http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Dev:Ref/Release_Notes/2.70/Bug_Fixes#Fixes_since_2.70_release
> > > >
> > > > Please don't modify it directly, rather poke me to add/remove stuff
> in
> > > > there.
> > > >
> > > > --
> > > > With best regards, Sergey Sharybin
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With best regards, Sergey Sharybin