On Tue, 11 Jun 2019 at 16:18, Jonathan Wakely <jwakely....@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Tue, 11 Jun 2019 at 16:13, Thomas Schwinge <tho...@codesourcery.com> wrote: > > > > Hi! > > > > We have found that the Git 'gcc-9_1_0-release' tag doesn't correspond to > > the actual GCC 9.1 release. The GCC 9.1 release (as per 'gcc-9.1.0.tar' > > as well as 'svn+ssh://gcc.gnu.org/svn/gcc/tags/gcc_9_1_0_release', > > r272156) would correspond to Git commit > > 3defceaa1a2987fa90296abfbcc85d7e9ad59684 "Update ChangeLog and version > > files for release", but the Git 'gcc-9_1_0-release' tag points one commit > > further: Git commit 1f54d412a517f3a4b82f3dd77517842fb4de099a "BASE-VER: > > Set to 9.1.1". (That's not a big problem; the 'BASE-VER' update is > > indeed the only difference.) > > That's probably my fault, I think I created the tag. > > > The Git tag can't be corrected now (would it make sense to push a Git > > 'gcc-9_1_0-release-corrected' tag?), but I wanted to post this, to get it > > into the mighty Internet archives; may this note help others who stumble > > over the same thing. > > Can't we just delete the tag and add it at the right commit?
I don't think I can do that by pushing a new tag to the repo, but somebody with the right privs could do it locally on sourceware.org. I think Jason and Joseph should be able to, maybe others too. Changing a tag isn't like rebasing history of a branch, it's not going to mess things up for anybody.
