Re: Alpha releases: How to tag

On Monday 03 August 2009 17:44:32 Tom Lane wrote:
> Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.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.

Well then, naming:

Branch: ???
Tag: REL8_5_ALPHA1