[SciPy-Dev] moved 0.19.1 tag

[Ralf Gommers]

On Thu, Jun 22, 2017 at 11:02 PM, Freddy Rietdijk <freddyrietdijk at fridh.nl>
wrote:

> Please don't ever move tags. Moving tags isn't nice for anyone relying on
> them. Build systems that retrieve tags and use checksums will now get an
> error because the checksum isn't correct. They may suspect someone tempered
> with the source.
>

It's a tradeoff. The relatively few people that have to delete a tag by
hand will do less work than moving to v1.19.2 would have cost me. Added to
that is the annoyance of having a non-existing 0.19.1 release if I had not
moved the tag.


> Surely a new v0.19.1.1 could have been made in this case.
>

That's not a valid version number.

Ralf



>
> On Thu, Jun 22, 2017 at 12:27 PM, Ralf Gommers <ralf.gommers at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Unfortunately I had to move the v0.19.1 tag by one commit, a 32-bit test
>> error had snuck in (we don't have that in our regular TravisCI runs, to be
>> fixed). If you have pulled from the repo in the last 24 hours or so and
>> have a local v0.19.1 tag, do:
>>
>>     git tag -d v0.19.1
>>     git fetch upstream --tags
>>
>> to fix possible issues.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Ralf
>>
>>
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