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Diffstat (limited to 'Porting/release_managers_guide.pod')
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1 files changed, 8 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/Porting/release_managers_guide.pod b/Porting/release_managers_guide.pod index add7a5a068..1c63f054ce 100644 --- a/Porting/release_managers_guide.pod +++ b/Porting/release_managers_guide.pod @@ -913,8 +913,12 @@ I<You MUST SKIP this step for RC> Create a new perldelta. -First, move the existing F<pod/perldelta.pod> to F<pod/perlNNNdelta.pod> (where -NNN is the perl version number without the dots. i.e. 5134 for 5.13.4). +First, update the F<.gitignore> file in the F<pod/> folder to ignore the next +release's generated F<pod/perlNNNdelta.pod> file rather than this releases's +one which we are about to set in stone (where NNN is the perl version number +without the dots. i.e. 5135 for 5.13.5). + +Then, move the existing F<pod/perldelta.pod> to F<pod/perlNNNdelta.pod>. Now edit the moved delta file to change the C<NAME> from C<perldelta> to C<perlNNNdelta>. @@ -923,7 +927,7 @@ Then create a new empty perldelta.pod file for the new release; see F<Porting/how_to_write_a_perldelta.pod>. You should be able to do this by just copying in a skeleton template and -then doing a quick fix up of the version numbers, e.g. +then doing a quick fix up of the version numbers. Then commit the move and the new file. @@ -972,12 +976,9 @@ Finally, commit: $ git commit -a -m 'update TOC for perlNNNdelta' At this point you may want to compare the commit with a previous bump to -see if they look similar. See commit ca8de22071 for an example of a +see if they look similar. See commit 2b6e134265 for an example of a previous version bump. -XXX the commit uses the old perldelta naming scheme and we need to reference -another one once this has been done with the scheme. - =item * I<You MUST SKIP this step for RC, BLEAD> |