How to create and tag a new release =================================== By Przemyslaw Czerpak (druzus/at/priv.onet.pl) 1. Make full update of your local CVS copy with: cvs -z3 update -A -P -d -R harbour with the above unused empty directories will be removed from your repository copy. Please check if all your files are unmodified. You can redirect STDOUT output from cvs command to a file to see if all files are exactly the same. 2. Update files which contain Harbour release number. Now these are: harbour.spec include/hbver.h 3. Set proper release date in NEWS (found as doc/oldnews.txt) and if necessary update release information. Also add the exact tag name to this file, for example "tag: build46". 4. Update ChangeLog.txt and commit your modifications. 5. Update hbver.h with ChangeLog.txt file ID and your last entry ID. 6. Tag the CVS tree with the new release tag: cvs tag -t -F -D for example: cvs tag -t -F -D "2006-05-29 16:00" build46 With the above you can also "re-tag" already set tag so be careful and use re-tag repository _only_ if it's really necessary. With properly tagged CVS any one who wants to create Harbour release binaries should make: cvs -z3 co -r harbour for example: cvs -z3 co -r "build46" harbour to be sure that local repository copy is exactly the same as the one tagged as new release. The first commit after cvs tagging should also change the version number and ChangeLog IDs in harbour.spec and include/hbver.h for easier locating possible mistakes when release binaries are created.