branchs and tags and merges oh my!

[servilio]

On 3 July 2011 08:44, David Bremner <david at tethera.net> wrote:
> On Sun, 3 Jul 2011 03:14:03 -0400, servilio <servilio at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> I think there is no need for tags on master, "make dist" should only
>> be run on the "release" branch, right?
>
> It isn't just about make dist (which I anyway thinks makes sense to run
> on master to make snapshots). Every compilation from git gets a version
> number from running git-describe.  So unless we want all developers to
> have useless/annoying version numbers, we have to care about tags on
> master.

Why not just generate version when building from master in a different way?

Servilio