On Thu, Mar 29, 2018 at 3:20 PM, Eric Gourgoulhon <egourgoul...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Le jeudi 29 mars 2018 14:16:22 UTC+2, Dima Pasechnik a écrit : >> >> >> >> On Thursday, March 29, 2018 at 12:31:15 PM UTC+1, Eric Gourgoulhon wrote: >>> >>> Hi, >>> >>> If one performs >>> git clone https://github.com/sagemath/sage.git >>> one gets the develop branch, not the master one: >>> cd sage >>> git branch -v >>> returns >>> * develop e5c848a Updated SageMath version to 8.2.rc0 >>> >>> Shouldn't "git clone" yields the master branch (8.1) only ? >> >> >> why? You can do >> >> git checkout master >> >> anyway... >> > > > > Yes, but IIRC some time ago "git clone" used to yield directly the master > branch. So it was changed at some point. I am of course fine with the new > behaviour. It's clearly more convenient for development. However I wonder if > this may not confuse users who would try to compile the latest *stable* > version of Sage by getting the sources via git clone. It particular, this > seems to contradict > http://doc.sagemath.org/html/en/developer/walk_through.html#obtaining-the-sage-source-code
I changed it to develop for a few different reasons. We can change it back to 'master' for now since it contradicts the documentation, but I'd really rather update the documentation and then change this to work, like, closer to the way git is intended to work. Anyways, "in theory" the "develop" branch should still be reasonably stable, and users who want to build from source from the latest stable release should check out the relevant tag (we do those, right?). A user advanced enough to want to build from source can surely figure that out, especially if we note the latest stable version in an easy to find way. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-release" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-release+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to sage-release@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/sage-release. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
