On Thursday, April 14, 2011 14:30:59 Chris Patti wrote: > We want a way to have our Bamboo configuration utilize a symbol to > refer to 'latest release' 'latest patch' etc. in Git, rather than > having to go in and change the actual branch name every time we ship a > release and create a new one. > > We thought about using something like: > > git symbolic-ref -m'new next-release branch build for Bamboo' > next-release release-3.15 > > However, this symbolic ref is only local to one repository, and we > want it to be global across all of Bamboo. > > Rather than resorting to manually copying the symbolic ref file > around, from repo to repo, is there any way to make such a symbolic > 'variable' global? Why not just use a tag or a branch ? git tag -F next-release release-3.15 OR git branch -D next-release git branch next-release release-3.15 (I personally think branches are nicer for this since tags are "supposed" to be immutable.) -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html