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Subject: Re: Branch Tags vs Release Tags
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Lowell Gilbert wrote:

>Bob Perry <rperry4@earthlink.net> writes:
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>>Edmund Craske wrote:
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>>>No problem, in fact it would make little sense not to use this branch.
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>>I guess that 's what so confusing.  Who would benefit using
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>>RELENG_4_9_0_RELEASE?
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>Look at it this way.  
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>If someone installed the 4.9 release, from a set of disks they bought
>in a store, and then they had a question about it, I might want to
>help them figure out their problem.  Because there is a
>RELENG_4_9_0_RELEASE tag, I can look at the files that produced their
>release.  It makes no sense that anyone would download those files to
>install from, but some people can actually read the source files.
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Lowell/Ed,

It's very clear now.  I guess I was just looking at things as they 
related to upgrading
one's system.  Thanks for following up with your explanations.

Bob

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