From ceb7f800743f9d0c3a2ed97d06aca722aab3c8b5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Leon Brocard Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2011 18:07:41 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] Mention bump-perl-version's inplace mode in Porting/release_managers_guide.pod --- Porting/release_managers_guide.pod | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) diff --git a/Porting/release_managers_guide.pod b/Porting/release_managers_guide.pod index f11736c..3f95c76 100644 --- a/Porting/release_managers_guide.pod +++ b/Porting/release_managers_guide.pod @@ -268,6 +268,12 @@ careful not change text like "this was fixed in 5.10.0"! Then run: which will update all the files shown. +Instead of these two steps, bump-perl-version can also make these changes +inplace in one step, and you can use git status and git diff to select +changes you want to keep: + + $ ./perl -Ilib Porting/bump-perl-version -i 5.10.0 5.10.1 + Be particularly careful with F, which contains a mixture of C<5.10.0>-type strings, some of which need bumping on every release, and some of which need to be left unchanged. -- 2.7.4