[gdal-dev] Commiting fixes to tags

Ari Jolma ari.jolma at gmail.com
Fri Mar 16 08:22:32 EDT 2012


On 03/16/2012 01:56 PM, Even Rouault wrote:
> Selon Ari Jolma<ari.jolma at gmail.com>:
>
>> Folks,
>>
>> I made a change to the Perl typemaps in r23038, causing a serious bug in
>> the bindings that went unnoticed for a while and, what's most
>> unfortunate, was not fixed until after 1.9.0 was released. I've since
>> made a CPAN package 1.90 from the bindings where the bug is fixed
>> (r23443). The question is now, as I've never commited fixes to tags,
>> should this be fixed into the 1.9.0 tag or what's the right thing to do?
> Ari,
>
> Tags are conceptually an immutable snapshot of history. You cannot/should not
> try to commit in an existing tag. But you can checkout
> https://svn.osgeo.org/gdal/branches/1.9 and push your commit in it (for 1.9.1).
> We require an associated ticket to track changes to stable branches.

Hm. Excuse my ignorance, but https://svn.osgeo.org/gdal/branches/1.9 
already seems to have r23443?

>
> Best regards,
>
> Even



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