Re: Contributing to Emacs

[Robert Pluim]

>>>>> On Thu, 8 Sep 2022 17:34:59 +0200, Christopher Dimech <dimech@gmx.com> 
>>>>> said:

    >> Thatʼs the emacs-28 branch. The relevant code and doc changes are on
    >> the master branch.

    Christopher> Right.  Have seen that tags for the emacs-28 branch.  I wonder 
if there could be
    Christopher> a tag system as well when checking out the master branch.  It 
would be quite helpful
    Christopher> and quick to see what one has, especially when having multiple 
versions locally.

What would be the point of tagging master? It never goes through any
kind of formal "it is now stable" process until a release branch is
created. And if you want to see which revision youʼre at, any variant
of

    git log -1

or the builtin `emacs-repository-version' variable will tell you.

Robert
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