Re: VC-tag again

[Reuben Thomas]

On 14 March 2011 15:45, Jim Meyering <address@hidden> wrote:
> Reuben Thomas wrote:
>> This line in maint.mk:
>>
>> VC-tag = git tag -s -m '$(VERSION)' -u '$(gpg_key_ID)'
>>
>> does appear to be unused, because its syntax is wrong: there's no
>> message (argument to -m), or equivalently, no tag name is specified.
>>
>> Is something like:
>>
>> VC-tag = git tag -s -m 'Sign version $(VERSION)' '$(VERSION)' -u 
>> '$(gpg_key_ID)'

[We fixed this, but...]

> That definitely needs to be changed, or perhaps better, removed.

Should it be removed? It's now correct, but it's not actually used
anywhere. Better, perhaps, replace it with:

>  http://git.sv.gnu.org/cgit/coreutils.git/tree/README-release

?

coreutils's README-release is a) a handy cheat-sheet, and b) a good
source of things to automate.

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