Re: Contributing to Emacs

[Christopher Dimech]

> Sent: Friday, September 09, 2022 at 3:39 AM
> From: "Robert Pluim" <rpluim@gmail.com>
> To: "Christopher Dimech" <dimech@gmx.com>
> Cc: "Visuwesh" <visuweshm@gmail.com>, "Eli Zaretskii" <eliz@gnu.org>, 
> jaopaulolc@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Subject: Re: Contributing to Emacs
>
> >>>>> On Thu, 8 Sep 2022 17:34:59 +0200, Christopher Dimech <dimech@gmx.com> 
> >>>>> said:
> 
>     >> Thatʼs the emacs-28 branch. The relevant code and doc changes are on
>     >> the master branch.
> 
>     Christopher> Right.  Have seen that tags for the emacs-28 branch.  I 
> wonder if there could be
>     Christopher> a tag system as well when checking out the master branch.  
> It would be quite helpful
>     Christopher> and quick to see what one has, especially when having 
> multiple versions locally.
> 
> What would be the point of tagging master? It never goes through any
> kind of formal "it is now stable" process until a release branch is
> created. And if you want to see which revision youʼre at, any variant
> of
> 
>     git log -1
> 
> or the builtin `emacs-repository-version' variable will tell you.

It says in the README 

This directory tree holds version 29.0.50 of GNU Emacs,

So everything is fine as it is.