git <tag> --fubar

[Andrew Edwards via Digitalmars-d]

On 7/14/14, 11:12 PM, Andrew Edwards wrote:
> On 7/14/14, 6:47 PM, Dicebot wrote:
>> Ah I see. Your tag references "merged commit" but not "merge commit",
>> former being implicit part of the latter when it comes to "git describe".
>>
>> Printing HEAD for 2.066 shows this:
>>
>> commit 2b795569cd892801050faec80054d91c1fb54d3c
>> Merge: d84aadd 601d478
>>
>> As you may notice it mentions d84aadd (your v2.066-b3 tag commit) as on
>> of merged parents.
>>
>>
>> May I ask what command sequence have you used to create the tag? Doing
>> this locally result in proper HEAD tag for me:
>>
>> git fetch upstream
>> git checkout 2.066
>> git tag testtag HEAD
>

This process used is described here:

> http://wiki.dlang.org/Simplified_Release_Process_Proposal#Releases

cd dmd
git checkout 2.066
git tag -m v2.066.0-b3 v2.066.0-b3 2.066
git push upstream v2.066.0-b3