Beta Releases to Apple and Amazon

• In LT-HRMS we are ready with features and we are giving a test release to our qa team and when that is successful, we will give beta releases to aplle and amazon.
• When we give new releases to the qa or customers we will continue working, To make this happen, Organizations follow two approaches
  1. Create a branch for every release (Release Branches)
  2. Many version control systems supports tags or label. Git also does that.
• A Tag points to specific repositories history which is important

git tag

• Git has two types of tags
  • Light weighted:
    • Is a pointer to a specific commit
    • Create:

    git tag <tag_name>
    

  • Annotated:
    • Annotated are stored as full objects in git database.
    • Create

    git tag -a <tag_name> -m "tag_message"
    

• Pushing Tags to server

# Push specific tag
git tag <remote-name> <tag-name>

# push all the tags
git push <remote-name> --tags

Editing Commit History

• Now let us work on apple branch and create 5 commits
• Now your are asked combine c1 and c2 as one commit "c1.1" (Squash)
  • Lets rebase interactively

  git rebase -i HEAD~5
  

  
• Now lets drop/delete c3 commit, again interactive rebase
• If you push the changes to remote repo after changing history your push will be failed. You might need necessary permissions to do force push

git push --force origin apple