Re: Symbolic 'references' in Git?

Chris Patti [off-list ref] writes:

quoted

git branch -D next-release
git branch next-release release-3.15

(I personally think branches are nicer for this since tags are "supposed" to
be immutable.)

Won't either of those things create a 'next-release' that's frozen in
time where the release-3.15 branch is *right now*?

I suspect that most people go about this the other way around.  You keep
the next-release branch that goes forward, and your automated process
would follow that one.  When you really cut a release, you tag the tip of
next-release, i.e. "git tag v3.15 next-release", to give it a name.