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Consider using tags for the git repository

2024-04-07
2024-04-08
  • David Runge

    David Runge - 2024-04-07

    Hi!
    Up until recently I have been maintaining this project as a package for Arch Linux.

    Going back to bump the version for fixing https://sourceforge.net/p/refind/discussion/general/thread/7659d4ff48/ I realized that the git repository of this project does not have any tags: https://sourceforge.net/p/refind/code/ci/master/tree/

    In light of recent events (backdoor code added to the xz project and activated using a manipulated configure script in a custom (signed) source tarball) I would like to ask for the following:

    Please tag releases of this project going forward and create source tarballs/ prebuilt binaries from that specific tag.
    The upsides for downstreams and in effect users are plenty:
    - version tracking by packagers can be done using git (using regex on a url is rather cumbersome)
    - project can be built from a specific git commit (downstreams will prefer this over custom source tarballs)
    - the release becomes auditable (it is hard evaluating changes between the git repository and a custom source tarball if there are no tags, when building from tags, it becomes easy!)

    Thanks for you work on this project!

     
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  • Roderick W. Smith

    I do use git tag on release versions; the latest has a tag of "v.0.14.2".

     
  • nl6720

    nl6720 - 2024-04-08

    @srs5694, I think you may have forgotten to push the tags.

     

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