Ubuntu distributed development (UDD): which command to bzr tag?

Jelmer Vernooij jelmer at samba.org
Fri Jul 22 08:36:19 UTC 2011


Hi Kyle,

On 22/07/11 03:37, Kyle Nitzsche wrote:
>
> After building the source package, the documentation [1] says to tag 
> the bzr  log with "bzr tag" (by the way, is the doc missing the commit 
> step?). My  question is: why use 'bzr tag' instead of 'bzr 
> mark-uploaded' (and doesn't  'debcommit -r' also tag the bzr log?). So 
> I am a bit confused about the  current recommended approach to tagging 
> the bzr log. I understand we want  one release tag for the each source 
> pkg release.
"bzr tag" (without arguments) and "bzr mark-uploaded" currently do the 
same thing (and use the same underlying code). We have discussed whether 
"bzr mark-uploaded" should be removed, and I believe Barry has replaced 
all references to "bzr mark-uploaded" with "bzr tag".

Cheers,

Jelmer



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