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authorDave Whiteland <dave@mysociety.org>2014-07-03 14:49:29 +0100
committerDave Whiteland <dave@mysociety.org>2014-07-03 14:49:29 +0100
commit301e78b1b8f9b96b51c078b9bc59acc81c9debb8 (patch)
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parent49eff147f3866cf7e28d36e27448fdad70164170 (diff)
explicit use of 'tag' now when referring to releases
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@@ -7,8 +7,9 @@ Upgrading Alaveteli
<p class="lead">
Alaveteli is under active development &mdash; don't let the
- version you're running get too far behind our latest release. This page
- describes how to keep your site up-to-date
+ version you're running get too far behind our latest
+ <a href="{{site.baseurl}}docs/glossary/#release" class="glossary__link">release</a>.
+ This page describes how to keep your site up-to-date
</p>
## Master branch contains the latest stable release
@@ -16,9 +17,10 @@ Upgrading Alaveteli
The developer team policy is that the `master` branch in git should always
contain the latest stable release -- so you'll be up to date if you pull from
the `master` branch. However, on your
-<a href="{{site.baseurl}}docs/glossary/#production" class="glossary">production site</a>,
-you should know precisely what version you're running, and deploy Alaveteli
-from a [*specific* release tag](https://github.com/mysociety/alaveteli/releases).
+<a href="{{site.baseurl}}docs/glossary/#production" class="glossary">production
+site</a>, you should know precisely what version you're running, and deploy
+Alaveteli from a [*specific* release
+tag](https://github.com/mysociety/alaveteli/releases).
Upgrading may just require pulling in the latest code -- but it may also require
other changes ("further action"). For this reason, for anything other than a
@@ -32,7 +34,7 @@ other changes that might be needed to make the new code work.
* If you're using Capistrano for deployment,
simply [deploy the code]({{site.baseurl}}docs/installing/deploy/#usage):
set the repo and branch in `deploy.yml` to be the version you want.
- We recommend you set this to the explicit branch name (for example,
+ We recommend you set this to the explicit tag name (for example,
`0.18`, and not `master`) so there's no risk of you accidentally deploying
a new version before you're aware it's been released.
* otherwise, you can simply upgrade by running `git pull`