Re: tag for 2.17.96 is missing in git

[Phil Holmes]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Werner LEMBERG" <address@hidden>
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Sent: Sunday, December 01, 2013 3:23 PM
Subject: Re: tag for 2.17.96 is missing in git


> > > Forget that: it seems that the tag already exists, it's just not
> > > present on the master branch (because it's in the stable branch):
> > > 050744bbb706525840a3014cd72b06fde945fa4d
>
> OK.
>
> > Yes, I have it here as well.
>
> Hmm.  So why do we have
>
>  commit 9918cd9f8d8f5461c6ad7e086fd93de59960eb95
>  Author: Phil Holmes <address@hidden>
>  Date:   Sun Nov 24 22:05:16 2013 +0000
>
>      Release: bump VERSION.
>
> in the `master' branch?  This looks incorrect to me, given that we
> currently derive 2.17.9X tarballs from the `stable' branch, right?
>
>
>    Werner


VERSION is out of step on master and stable, so needs bumping separately on 
each.

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Phil Holmes