Re: We've been sloppy about version numbering

[Peter Stephenson <p.w.stephenson@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, 2025-04-20 at 18:21 -0700, Bart Schaefer wrote:
> Looks like the HEAD/unstable revision was last tagged with the usual
> -dev- suffix after the 5.5.1 release.  Was that a conscious decision?

It's probably worth recording this.  (I thought the convention was
actually -dev-0 but I can't see any in the repository.)

pws

diff --git a/Etc/creating-a-release.txt b/Etc/creating-a-release.txt
index 80fe2b301..1202010eb 100644
--- a/Etc/creating-a-release.txt
+++ b/Etc/creating-a-release.txt
@@ -160,3 +160,8 @@ To create a zsh release:
 
 	-users@, if test release;
 	-announce@, if stable release.
+
+- It is helpful once the release is made to update the VERSION in
+  version.mk so that anyone installing from a git snapshot does not
+  overwrite a release version.  The convention is that -dev-1 is
+  appended to the end of the previous release number.