First, develop some feature in a branch, open a merge request. After it’s been reviewed and merged into develop: git checkout master git pull git checkout develop git pull So that the two synchronization branches are up to date.

Now we have to choose a release tag according to the following rule : a small change that does not change the API increases the patch version, a big change or an API change increases the minor version.

git flow release start X.Y.Z

Now we edit two files in the root directory:

  1. CMakeLists.txt : write the new minor and patch versions at lines containing VERSION_MINOR and VERSION_PATCH.

  2. CHANGES.md (in some modules called CHANGELOG.md) : document all the changes from the previous release.

Finally: git commit CHANGES.md CMakeLists.txt git flow release finish X.Y.Z git push --follow-tags git checkout master git push