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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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