Re: v1.11.6 tag missing from automake.git?

[Eric Blake]

On 08/14/2012 04:24 PM, Stefano Lattarini wrote:
> Hi Eric.
> 
> On 08/15/2012 12:16 AM, Eric Blake wrote:
>> I see v1.12.2, but no tag for v1.11.6 for the CVE-2012-3386 fix.
>>
> Hmm... I can see it without problems:
> 
>   <http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/automake.git/tag/?id=v1.11.6>
> 
> User error on your part, or am I missing something?

I blame 'git remote update origin' for not pulling all tags that are not
also reachable from a current branch; and since origin/branch-1.11 is no
longer maintained, I no longer have a branch spec to pull in the new
label by default.  I had to do an explicit 'git fetch --tags origin' to
get it, but now I see the label again.

It really IS a good practice to keep a branch associated with all public
long-lived tags; it doesn't waste any additional space in the git repo,
and makes fetches pick up those tags with less effort.

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Eric Blake   address@hidden    +1-919-301-3266
Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org

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