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Help/dev: Add maintainer guide release branch creation to use a MR for CI

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Provide a way to run CI with a new release version number
before merging it.
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Brad King 2024-10-09 11:52:57 -04:00
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@ -306,11 +306,22 @@ Commit with a message such as::
Begin post-$ver development
Push the update to the ``master`` and ``release`` branches:
Create a topic branch for the update to ``master``:
.. code-block:: shell
git push --atomic origin master release-$ver:release
git branch branch-$ver master
Open a merge request with the ``branch-$ver`` branch for review and CI.
Add the following trailing lines in the merge request description::
Fast-forward: true
Backport-ff: release:HEAD~1^2
This configures the ``Do: merge`` action to fast-foward the ``master``
and ``release`` branches to the respective commits created above.
Further steps may proceed after this has been merged.
Announce 'release' Branch
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