On Fri, Mar 02, 2012 at 03:00:12PM +0100, Tobias Burnus wrote:
> As mentioned on #gcc, the git mirror should also include new major releases.
>
> Diego also documented it on the wiki:
> http://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/GitMirror#Adding_a_branch_to_origin.2BAC8.2A
> (Wiki page rev. 94 -> 96)
>
> OK for committal?
releasing.html is wrong for this, it has nothing to do with releasing,
but with branching, so something like that should go into branching.html
instead. From this isn't clear where this command needs to be run, btw,
on gcc.gnu.org directly, somewhere else?
> Index: releasing.html
> ===================================================================
> RCS file: /cvs/gcc/wwwdocs/htdocs/releasing.html,v
> retrieving revision 1.36
> diff -u -r1.36 releasing.html
> --- releasing.html 1 Mar 2012 13:16:51 -0000 1.36
> +++ releasing.html 2 Mar 2012 13:55:52 -0000
> @@ -55,6 +55,12 @@
>
> <li>Reenable the generation of snapshots off the respective release
> branch in the crontab of gccadmin on gcc.gnu.org.</li>
> +
> +<li>For a new major release, add the release to GIT mirror; example:
> +<pre>
> +$ cd /git/gcc.git/.git
> +$ git symbolic-ref refs/heads/gcc-4_7-branch refs/remotes/gcc-4_7-branch
> +</pre></li>
> </ol>
>
> <h2>Web Site Updates</h2>
Jakub
