From owner-freebsd-newbies Mon Jun 26 10: 1:44 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from dt051n0b.san.rr.com (dt051n0b.san.rr.com [204.210.32.11]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E59E837BABA for ; Mon, 26 Jun 2000 10:01:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from DougB@gorean.org) Received: from gorean.org (doug@master [10.0.0.2]) by dt051n0b.san.rr.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA10326; Mon, 26 Jun 2000 10:01:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from DougB@gorean.org) Message-ID: <39578C6F.495221C1@gorean.org> Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2000 10:01:35 -0700 From: Doug Barton Organization: Triborough Bridge & Tunnel Authority X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.72 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT-0603 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Doug Asherman Cc: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvsup tags References: <39576FAE.F0803835@ix.netcom.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Doug Asherman wrote: > > This is a real newbie question, but I hope it has a simple answer. > If I use the tag RELENG_4 as my default tag for cvsup, will I > get the source for 4.0-STABLE or 4.0-CURRENT? There is no more 4.0-Current. Think of the major version numbers like strings. A -Release is a single point on the 4.x string. Before the -Release, the string has the name "4.0-STABLE". At the exact moment of the release (signified by the laying down of the release tag on that branch) it's called "4.x-RELEASE", then once the release engineering is done, that same thread is referred to as -Stable again. It's all the same thread, just different names for different points in time. The -Current branch always refers to the chaotic, likely to break developer branch. Once a release is cut on the development branch, it splits off into it's own "thread," as happened with 4.0 and 5.0 recently. Hope this helps, Doug -- "Live free or die" - State motto of my ancestral homeland, New Hampshire Do YOU Yahoo!? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message