Date: Thu, 02 May 2002 15:46:33 -0700 From: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> To: Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net> Cc: Drew Tomlinson <drew@mykitchentable.net>, bmah@FreeBSD.ORG, Dave Hayes <dave@jetcafe.org>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Difference between RELENG_* and RELENG_*_BP Message-ID: <3CD1C1C9.9934C969@mindspring.com> References: <200205022047.g42Klxb84582@hokkshideh2.jetcafe.org> <3CD1ACD6.5B2432DF@mindspring.com> <200205022128.g42LSXjr072995@intruder.bmah.org> <3CD1B790.DB547674@mindspring.com> <01c501c1f226$ecd7cfd0$6e2a6ba5@lc.ca.gov> <20020502152615.A4030@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu>
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Brooks Davis wrote: > On Thu, May 02, 2002 at 03:15:53PM -0700, Drew Tomlinson wrote: > > I'm just trying to understand. :) How is RELENG_X_Y_BP different from > > RELENG_X_Y_RELEASE? > > RELENG_X_Y_BP is the point on RELENG_X where the RELENG_X_Y branch was > created. RELENG_X_Y_0_RELEASE is the point on the RELENG_X_Y branch > which corresponds to what ends up in the actual release. It generally > has a few changes relative to the branch point point, but not too many. > RELENG_X_Y_BP is mostly an artifact of the way CVS works and is of little > if any real intrest. There certaintly isn't any real point in checking > it out. Exactly. It's there to branch, and to provide something so you can "cvs diff -r RELENG_X_Y_BP" a checked out tree to get patches to move them between parallel heads (-STABLE vs. -SECURITY) that supposedly contain "some of the same code" and "more of the same code", both "relative to the same branch point". -STABLE is called -STABLE these days, but RELENG_X -STABLE is really RELENG_X_Y + changes pending RELENG_X_(Y+1). Way back when, I think we had a long knock-down drag-out fight about naming of -STABLE vs. -DEVEL, and the expectations users have about the resulting code. That was where -SECURITY showed up: -SECURITY is a "stable version of -STABLE" (as if things weren't exciting enough... 8-) 8-)). -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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