commit: 42c9d5111ad4e543a0ef32ee8a791f0fd19a9433
parent: e0b5a94a4b98aa99369428af42216b308377c618
Author: Eugen <eugen@zeonfederated.com>
Date: Sun, 16 Apr 2017 16:42:46 +0200
Add README note about tagged releases (#1927)
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- **Deployable via Docker**
You don't need to mess with dependencies and configuration if you want to try Mastodon, if you have Docker and Docker Compose the deployment is extremely easy
+## Checking out
+
+If you want a stable release for production use, you should use tagged releases. To checkout the latest available tagged version:
+
+ git clone https://github.com/tootsuite/mastodon.git
+ cd mastodon
+ git checkout $(git describe --tags `git rev-list --tags --max-count=1`)
+
## Configuration
- `LOCAL_DOMAIN` should be the domain/hostname of your instance. This is **absolutely required** as it is used for generating unique IDs for everything federation-related
