[llvm-dev] [3.8 Release] RC3 has been tagged

[Sedat Dilek via llvm-dev]

On Wed, Feb 24, 2016 at 2:07 PM, Anton Korobeynikov
<anton at korobeynikov.info> wrote:
> Git tags and SVN tags are completely different beasts (git tag is
> simply a "second name" attached to revision, while on svn the tag
> could be arbitrary different). There is no way to automate the process
> - in general svn tag might not correspond (by contents) to any other
> revision in the repository.
>
> The only way to somehow emulate svn tags on git is to create a
> separate branch on each tag, however, this is very redundant provided
> that we're already having a release branch.
>

The release-announce to v3.8.0rc3 listed only one single SVN revision
- not sure this was for LLVM SVN.
The SVN revisions for clang (cfe) and compiler-rt were not announced.
For me this means to look at the SVN online repositories and check -
which is not very (Git-)user-friendly.

- Sedat -

> On Wed, Feb 24, 2016 at 12:13 PM, Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Wed, Feb 24, 2016 at 7:49 AM, Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> [ Original posting see [1] ]
>>>
>>> From [1]:
>>> ...
>>> Added:
>>>     llvm/tags/RELEASE_380/rc3/   (props changed)
>>>       - copied from r261685, llvm/branches/release_38/
>>> ...
>>>
>>> The LLVM Git repositories have no "rc3" tag in "release_38" branch (as
>>> an example llvm.git#release_38 see [2]).
>>>
>>> Who is responsible for that or maybe better... can you activate the
>>> responsible(s)?
>>>
>>> Helpful is to add tags for both SVN and Git repositories synchronously.
>>>
>>> Thanks!
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> - Sedat -
>>>
>>> [1] http://lists.llvm.org/pipermail/llvm-dev/2016-February/095756.html
>>> [2] https://github.com/llvm-mirror/llvm/tree/release_38
>>
>> I looked through some older emails and have CCed Anton.
>>
>> I checked out from Git not knowing what rc3 is for llvm | clang |
>> compiler-rt, I will simply use realase_38 Git branch and then see.
>> Official (source) tarballs will take some time...
>>
>> - Sedat -
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> --
> With best regards, Anton Korobeynikov
> Faculty of Mathematics and Mechanics, Saint Petersburg State University