[Releasing] State of Qt 5.0.0 wk 50 & Meeting minutes: release team meeting 12.12.2012

[Koehne Kai]

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> Sent: Friday, December 14, 2012 12:11 AM
> To: Knoll Lars; Thiago Macieira
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> Subject: Re: [Releasing] State of Qt 5.0.0 wk 50 & Meeting minutes: release
> team meeting 12.12.2012
> 
> [...]
> one can argue that a single merge of release back to stable after the release
> looks easier than *potentially* several forward merges.
> but then, cherry-picks (especially if somebody forgets the -x) also *do* make
> the history more complicated once they get merged back. and we will merge
> back, because thiago will insist on having the tags being visible on stable
> and dev.

What do you mean by that? Git tags aren't bound to a specific branch, and I don't see a reason why the exact SHA of a release must be in the history of either stable or dev.

Kai