[gnome-software: 7/14] docs: Use git-evtag rather than git-tag for releases




commit 6df440eeca743d5fa73ee8059278fd333512cbaa
Author: Philip Withnall <pwithnall endlessos org>
Date:   Wed Jan 27 13:06:13 2021 +0000

    docs: Use git-evtag rather than git-tag for releases
    
    This gives stronger signing guarantees by signing the entire source of
    the tagged revision, and by using a stronger checksum than SHA-1.
    
    See https://github.com/cgwalters/git-evtag.
    
    Signed-off-by: Philip Withnall <pwithnall endlessos org>

 RELEASE.md | 3 +--
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)
---
diff --git a/RELEASE.md b/RELEASE.md
index 4dcee84a4..7e10dada1 100644
--- a/RELEASE.md
+++ b/RELEASE.md
@@ -37,8 +37,7 @@ Tag the release:
 ```
 git add -p
 git commit -m "Release version 3.38.1"
-git tag -s 3.38.1 -m "==== Version 3.38.1 ===="
-<enter password>
+git evtag sign 3.38.1
 ```
 
 Build the release tarball:


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