From: Akim Demaille <akim@lrde.epita.fr>
Date: Fri, 6 Jul 2012 08:14:49 +0000 (+0200)
Subject: maint: update release instructions
X-Git-Tag: v2.6~18
X-Git-Url: https://git.saurik.com/bison.git/commitdiff_plain/a59a6ddef4a130b16d619e561a5d9886e305ac36

maint: update release instructions

* README-hacking: here.
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diff --git a/README-hacking b/README-hacking
index 5fab96c1..d06d1389 100644
--- a/README-hacking
+++ b/README-hacking
@@ -249,7 +249,10 @@ that the skeletons insert into generated parsers, and check all
 occurrences of PACKAGE_COPYRIGHT_YEAR in configure.ac.
 
 ** Update NEWS, commit and tag.
-See do-release-commit-and-tag in README-release.
+See do-release-commit-and-tag in README-release.  For a while, we used
+beta names such as "2.6_rc1".  Now that we use gnulib in the release
+procedure, we must use "2.5.90", which has the additional benefit of
+being properly sorted in "git tag -l".
 
 ** make alpha, beta, or stable
 See README-release.