[Numpy-discussion] git tag question/warning

[Ralf Gommers]

On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 5:34 AM, Charles R Harris
<charlesr.harris at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 11:29 AM, Ralf Gommers <ralf.gommers at googlemail.com>
> wrote:
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>> Hi,
>>
>> After tagging 1.6.0b1 and pushing it I found some issues that only showed
>> up with released=True in setup.py. According to the docs at
>> http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-tag.html there is a sane
>> (just make a new tag) and an insane (delete tag, reuse same tag) way to deal
>> with this. Since the tagged version will actually not compile due to a
>> version string issue in setup.py I want to go the insane way. Apologies.
>> Please correct me if there's a better option. If you pulled from the github
>> repo in the last few hours, please check if you have a new local tag and
>> delete it.
>>
>> Changes to go in https://github.com/rgommers/numpy/tree/fixes-1.6.0b1
>>
>
> Why not just make a new tag? Although I suspect this question is a bit late
> coming...

No, still possible. No fundamental reason, it just looks a bit stupid
to start out with beta 2. But guess it looks like that either way now.

Ralf