How do you release a hotfix?

How do you release a hotfix?

Hotfix releases follow no predefined release plan in the release process. As soon as a bug is declared to be critical and there has to be an emergency update to currently supported stable releases a hotfix release will be prepared.

What is the difference between Git and Gitflow?

Git is a free and open source distributed version control system designed to handle everything from small to very large projects with speed and efficiency. On the other hand, Git Flow is detailed as “A set of git extensions to provide high-level repository operations”. Git and Git Flow are both open source tools.

How does the release flow work in Git?

Here lie some important aspects of this Release Flow workflow: Once the 2.0.0 (or M129 in the image) release branch has been created no other feature should be added for development for that release. Hence, any other feature will be put on the backlog of future releases. Nothing else will be added from the master branch into the 2.0.0.

Do you need to know Git to use gitflow?

This is intended to be a summary of using Git in conjunction with gitflow to generate a release and understand the hotfix. Note: if you do not yet possess the basic skills you should learn Git basics and then learn about gitflow before you continue. For a more in-depth read about gitflow, check this out.

How to finish a Git release on GitHub?

You have to use Git command line, and not Github facilities to finish the release! Finishing a release is as simple as: Remove your local release\\1.4.0 branch. Once your release has been finished; you’ll have to push master, develop and tags and also remove remote release/1.4.0 branch (if any):

How to create a release request on GitLab?

Go on GitLab and create your merge request of the foo branch on the master branch. When a release is planned, someone in the team should create the branch for that release. Assuming that the release is the 2.0.0, there will be a branch named, for example, v2.0.0 (not necessarily the name should be the same as the versioning of the release).