Re: Minor release checklist

[Phil Holmes]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John Mandereau" <address@hidden>
To: "Phil Holmes" <address@hidden>
Cc: "Devel" <address@hidden>
Sent: Monday, September 10, 2012 4:28 PM
Subject: Re: Minor release checklist


> Il giorno lun, 10/09/2012 alle 16.12 +0100, Phil Holmes ha scritto:
> > Thanks, John.  I'm following the CG to the letter, and type:
> >
> > git checkout origin/release/unstable

Working through this again - I've now got my local release/unstable branch, 
but the command above still puts me in detached head.  I'm thinking it's a 
typo, and should be:

git checkout release/unstable


> >   Strikes me we
> > should not _require_ a release/unstable branch on the machine where the
> > updates are being done.
>
> What's the problem with creating a new local branch to track a remote
> one?  Creating branches is cheap, isn't it?

Just thought the most vanilla machine might be best, but I've got the new 
branch now.

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Phil Holmes