Git based releases

[Geert Janssens]

On Saturday 18 May 2013 22:16:30 Christian Stimming wrote:
> Am Freitag, 17. Mai 2013, 13:37:18 schrieb Geert Janssens:
> > With these changes committed I have updated the Release Process wiki page
> > (1). It now has instructions on how to release based on a git repo.
> 
> Thanks for more git work here and the updated instructions.
> 
> Those are all fine. I have one minor questions about the tagging in git: You
> write the git command is
> 
> > git tag "Tag 2.3.10"
> 
> but shouldn't it be
> 
> > git tag 2.3.10 -m"Tag 2.3.10"
> 
> i.e. the tag's name itself is just the version number?
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Christian

That's correct, my git tag example is indeed incomplete.

Yours would generate an unsigned annotated tag. In the git-tag man page I found we could 
also generate signed tags using -s or -u.

I don't know the (dis)advantages of both methods and which one we should use then.

Geert