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0 pointsfeld10y ago0 comments

and if you do this you deserve to burn in a fiery pit for being a bad bad bad release manager

If you tag a commit you better stick to your guns and never change it. You can't just re-tag or re-roll your releases because you found a bug. Bugs happen. Increment your version number, cut/tag a new release, and move on. You will never have a perfect release. Ever.

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TazeTSchnitzel10y ago

Tagging a PHP release doesn't mean finalising it. That's when the tarballs go up and the email goes out.

wtetzner10y ago

Yes, but moving a tag is very bad. A tag is meant to be an immutable pointer into a repo.

If you create a php-7.0.0 tag, and you find a bad bug, then make a new tag, either php-7.0.1, or since you might still want to call the release PHP 7.0.0, maybe name it php-7.0.0-bugfix1 or something.

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