For example assuming you are releasing fix to 0.8.18
- Checkout 0-8-stable
- Update tests, fix the bug and commit the changes.
- Build & Release to RubyGems (Remember the version in version.rb should already be 0.8.19)
- Create a tag 'v0.8.19' pointing to that commit.
- Bump the version in 0-8-stable to 0.8.20 so it will be ready for the next patch level release.
- Commit the version bump, and do a
git push --tags
so the new tag goes up