Git Workflow and 4.3 Release

[askpatrickw]

I noticed there is a 4.3 release tag and more recently updated 4.3 Beta release tag. Do we need to jump around to track 4.3 work or is the main release tag (4.3) also being moved along to the the betas and RCs? It seems to be that at the end the 4.3 tag willbe moved, but I wanted to verify. https://docs.espressif.com/projects/esp ... t-workflow

Thanks,
-p

[ESP_Angus]

Hi patrick,

I'm afraid we don't yet have any v4.3 release tag (you can view the list of tags here: https://github.com/espressif/esp-idf/tags/), the latest is v4.3-beta2.

The pre-release tags so far are v4.3-beta1 and v4.3-beta2,

We have a "release branch" for v4.3 which is https://github.com/espressif/esp-idf/co ... lease/v4.3

The naming is a bit regrettable, as "release/vX.Y" gives the impression that this is a release but actually this is a maintenance branch where the release will be tagged. So it's possible to check this branch out now, which will give you a revision somewhere between v4.3-beta2 and the final release. Or can stick with v4.3-beta2, and update to the v4.3 tag once the release is available (probably there will be a v4.3-rc soon and then the final release.)

(The reason we have the release branch is that master branch is already v4.4-dev with new feature development happening on it.)

There is a bit more about the "release branches" here: https://docs.espressif.com/projects/esp ... sions.html

Does that all make sense?

[askpatrickw]

Yes that totally makes sense. And you're right, I was seeing the branch as a tag in my mind.

Thank you very much!