From 95665760ef50f67c171646954f486cc1036f4e73 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Even Rouault <even.rouault@spatialys.com>
Date: Fri, 1 Dec 2017 10:58:09 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] HOWTO-RELEASE: update to use signed tags

---
 HOWTO-RELEASE | 8 ++++++--
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/HOWTO-RELEASE b/HOWTO-RELEASE
index d936d0df..f2ba5eff 100644
--- a/HOWTO-RELEASE
+++ b/HOWTO-RELEASE
@@ -103,12 +103,16 @@ Notes on releasing.
 
       'git commit' and 'git push'
 
-14. In the source tree do
+14. In the source tree, create a signed tag
 
-      git tag -a Release-v4-0-0
+      git tag -s v4.0.0 -m "Create tag for v4.0.0"
 
     (or the appropriate name for the release)
 
+    and push it to "origin" (if "origin" points to the official repository)
+
+      git push origin v4.0.0
+
 15. Copy release packages from the build tree to the
     ftp.remotesensing.org ftp site.