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Date:      Mon, 24 Mar 2003 17:25:43 -0500
From:      Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu>
To:        Steve Bertrand <iaccounts@northnetworks.ca>, freebsd <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Personal development CVS question
Message-ID:  <p05200f41baa535d1f131@[128.113.24.47]>
In-Reply-To: <20030324115724.S25843-100000@diana.northnetworks.ca>
References:  <20030324115724.S25843-100000@diana.northnetworks.ca>

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At 12:04 PM -0500 3/24/03, Steve Bertrand wrote:
>The current state of my app is ready for production, so I would
>like to take a snapshot of it as is, then implement it. I would
>like to leave this snapshot alone, and further develop in other
>aspects of the program now. Am I correct with this method?:
>
>- commit my current source and branch as RELEASE
>- download RELEASE onto production server and put into use
>
>- further work will continue normally, and the RELEASE branch
>   will not be affected
>
>- when I am ready for the new features, I can re-branch to a
>   new RELEASE, redownload onto production and repeat

You generally want to use a special name for the release branch,
such as RELEASE_1.  When you later want to make a new release,
you name that branch RELEASE_2.  You may still want to work off
the RELEASE_1 branch even though RELEASE_2 has been made.

-- 
Garance Alistair Drosehn            =   gad@gilead.netel.rpi.edu
Senior Systems Programmer           or  gad@freebsd.org
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute    or  drosih@rpi.edu

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