From 4f1993a9d65bb67f4ec38379e9ca0e1f2375b89c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Tianon Gravi Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2025 13:57:28 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] Add a `golang:tip` variant section This describes the "tip" variant, but most notably provides a rough estimate for how often it's updated. --- golang/variant-tip.md | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) create mode 100644 golang/variant-tip.md diff --git a/golang/variant-tip.md b/golang/variant-tip.md new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..7a06aa72b1ce --- /dev/null +++ b/golang/variant-tip.md @@ -0,0 +1,5 @@ +## `%%IMAGE%%:-tip` + +The term "tip" in the Go community is used to refer to the latest development branch ([a leftover convention from previously using `hg` for version control](https://github.com/golang/build/blob/6383021611af0e07cbf0a60222e066662557c796/cmd/coordinator/internal/legacydash/build.go#L313-L314)). + +These tags contains builds of Go's latest development branch, and they are updated on a ~weekly cadence.