Branches are moving targets, in a sense. The code state they can point to can change at any time as the branch accumulates commits. That doesn't really make sense for a release, which should point to the codebase at a specific commit. That's where git tags come in. Tags are essentially immutable pointers to git commits.
It looks ilke Dianne has tagged this release candidate as 03.03.12-RC1, which you can checkout just like a branch. To see the entire (voluminous!) list of tags, check out `git tag`. In fact tags are just tag objects sitting in the git object store! If you're really interested, play with the `git cat-file` command to see the contents of this object: i.e. git cat-file -p 03.03.12-RC1. You can see it contains a reference to the commit where Dianne bumped the version number. Happy hacking! Justin Alcorn via Remind-fans <[email protected]> wrote: > Makes sense. I clone the repository and I figured I could just switch to > the rc branch and compile, and was scratching my head when it wasn't there. > > On Sat, Jan 22, 2022, 6:15 PM Dianne Skoll via Remind-fans < > [email protected]> wrote: > > > On Sat, 22 Jan 2022 12:53:53 -0500 > > Justin Alcorn <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > I noticed you don't put the rc on a branch. Just curious, since I > > > got out of development before git (hell, before CVS) and I'm still > > > learning git and modern development techniques - why is that? > > > > Well, Remind has only one developer, so I don't really see much point > > in branching. > > > > In my day job and in other situations where I work with other developers, > > we make heavy use of feature and bugfix branches. > > > > Regards, > > > > Dianne. > > _______________________________________________ > > Remind-fans mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://dianne.skoll.ca/mailman/listinfo/remind-fans > > Remind is at https://dianne.skoll.ca/projects/remind/ > > > _______________________________________________ > Remind-fans mailing list > [email protected] > https://dianne.skoll.ca/mailman/listinfo/remind-fans > Remind is at https://dianne.skoll.ca/projects/remind/ _______________________________________________ Remind-fans mailing list [email protected] https://dianne.skoll.ca/mailman/listinfo/remind-fans Remind is at https://dianne.skoll.ca/projects/remind/
