From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Oct 3 10:01:14 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id KAA27798 for stable-outgoing; Fri, 3 Oct 1997 10:01:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: from austin.polstra.com (austin.polstra.com [206.213.73.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id KAA27792 for ; Fri, 3 Oct 1997 10:01:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: from austin.polstra.com (jdp@localhost) by austin.polstra.com (8.8.7/8.8.5) with ESMTP id JAA05912; Fri, 3 Oct 1997 09:59:47 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199710031659.JAA05912@austin.polstra.com> To: mark@quickweb.com Subject: Re: CVSUP vs. SNAPS In-Reply-To: <19971002195822.55220@vinyl.quickweb.com> References: <25507.875833224@time.cdrom.com> <19971002195822.55220@vinyl.quickweb.com> Organization: Polstra & Co., Seattle, WA Cc: stable@freebsd.org Date: Fri, 03 Oct 1997 09:59:47 -0700 From: John Polstra Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk In article <19971002195822.55220@vinyl.quickweb.com>, Mark Mayo wrote: > > I'd have to agree! I think all that needs to be explained better is > the notion of a "branch" and a "release" - i.e. a release is just a > snapshot of the 2.2 development branch. I think many newbies aren't > familiar with the branch terminology due to the fact that in the > Windows world users just don't get to "touch" the development process > so directly :-) Here is what the CVSup documentation in the Handbook says: The "tag=" field names a symbolic tag in the repository. There are two kinds of tags, revision tags and branch tags. A revision tag refers to a specific revision. Its meaning stays the same from day to day. A branch tag, on the other hand, refers to the latest revision on a given line of development, at any given time. Because a branch tag does not refer to a specific revision, it may mean something different tomorrow than it means today. It then goes on to list, separately, the relevant branch tags and revision tags. Could it be that the problem is simply that people don't _read_ the documentation which already exists? John -- John Polstra jdp@polstra.com John D. Polstra & Co., Inc. Seattle, Washington USA "Self-knowledge is always bad news." -- John Barth