[GNC-dev] Help with Git repos and versioning

[Geert Janssens]

Hi Kevin,

The version number mentioned in the README file is an oversight. I have just fixed it. Thanks 
for mentioning this.

'maint' was the old name we used for the stable branch. Starting with 5.0 we decided it 
would be more clear to use 'stable' as name for that branch as 'maint' was a bit ambiguous 
and close to 'main' which is a name more commonly used for a development branch.

With the new stable branch it's normal you no longer find the maint branch.

John sent a message on the ANNOUNCE mailing list about this branch renaming:
https://lists.gnucash.org/pipermail/gnucash-announce/2023-March/000389.html[1]

Though while re-reading I see it's quite concise and doesn't explicitly mention maint (and 
master) will be dropped.

Regards,

Geert

Op zondag 16 april 2023 08:19:43 CEST schreef Kevin Buckley:
> I have a directory, from within which I do the occassional git pull
> againstt the GnuCash GitHub repo.
> 
> I just did one, and now see the following
> 
> $ git remote -v
> origin  https://github.com/Gnucash/gnucash.git (fetch)
> origin  https://github.com/Gnucash/gnucash.git (push)
> 
> $ git status -s -b
> ## stable...origin/stable
> 
> $ git describe --abbrev=1
> 5.0-71-gf4f48
> 
> All looks good, but then I started looking around.
> 
> The README I have starts with
> 
> ############################################################
>           GnuCash README file.
> 
> The current stable series is GnuCash 4.x.
> ------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> should I have one that says 5.x ?
> 
> 
> I also downloaded a 5.0 source tarball, and saw that the README is the
> same in there, but also saw in the Changelog
> 
> 2023-03-25 John Ralls
> 
>         * Release GnuCash 5.0 (HEAD -> master, tag: 5.0)
> 
> 2023-03-25 John Ralls
> 
>         * Merge branch 'maint'
> 
> 
> but, if I chechout the maint branch in my local directory, I see
> 
> $ git checkout maint
> $ git describe --abbrev=1
> 4.13-1-g52ded
> 
> amd I am aware that's there's been a 4.14, as well as the 5.0
> 
> FWIW, the latest commit I can see in my maint branch is
>