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Subject: Re: -stable from CVS repository?
From: "Richard Wackerbarth" <rkw@dataplex.net>
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On Wed, Apr 16, 1997 2:36 PM, Edward Elhauge
<mailto:ee@pythagoras.uncanny.net> wrote:
>I am trying to switch from cvsuping the -stable and -current releases to
>cvsuping the CVS repository. So far so good?
>
>Now I've gone on to extract the -stable release using the command:
>	cvs -Q checkout -r RELENG_2_1_7_RELEASE -d src-temp world
>
>When I then do a diff between the -stable directory and the directory I've
>created under src-temp I find several minor changes between the files in
the
>two directory hierarchies.

That is because 2.1.7-RELEASE is not the same as "-stable". The 2.1 branch
continues to have a few changes from time to time.


>1) My question is how to extract the -stable release from the CVS
repository?

You need to use the RELENG_2_1_0   (we won't discuss WHY that is the name
you need)

>2) Also how do I know which tags exist in a repository? Right now I just
>examine a Makefile and take a look at the tags that exist in it. Is there
a
>better way?

I don't know of one.