From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Nov 17 20:39:53 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id UAA16023 for freebsd-stable-outgoing; Tue, 17 Nov 1998 20:39:53 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from wall.polstra.com (rtrwan160.accessone.com [206.213.115.74]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA16016 for ; Tue, 17 Nov 1998 20:39:50 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jdp@polstra.com) Received: from vashon.polstra.com (vashon.polstra.com [206.213.73.13]) by wall.polstra.com (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id UAA19929; Tue, 17 Nov 1998 20:38:57 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jdp@polstra.com) From: John Polstra Received: (from jdp@localhost) by vashon.polstra.com (8.9.1/8.9.1) id UAA25265; Tue, 17 Nov 1998 20:38:55 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jdp@polstra.com) Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1998 20:38:55 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <199811180438.UAA25265@vashon.polstra.com> To: mph@pobox.com Subject: Re: How do I check out the 2.2.7-STABLE sources from the repository? Newsgroups: polstra.freebsd.stable In-Reply-To: <19981117154840.A27772@wopr.caltech.edu> References: <3651FBA2.F2A49CA6@ifi.uio.no> <19981117150050.B26428@wopr.caltech.edu> <365209D2.EC1C5432@ifi.uio.no> Organization: Polstra & Co., Seattle, WA Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In article <19981117154840.A27772@wopr.caltech.edu>, Matthew Hunt wrote: > On Wed, Nov 18, 1998 at 12:42:10AM +0100, Pål Sommerhein wrote: > > > RELENG_2_2_7_RELEASE:1.109.2.33 > > RELENG_2_2:1.109.0.2 > > Your confusion is understandable, but I guess the mysterious inner > workings of CVS are such that 1.109.0.2 can be newer than 1.109.2.33. > Or perhaps somehow CVS takes that to mean that it should get the > highest revision among the 1.109.2.xx revisions. Bingo -- that's exactly it. The magic revision numbers with zeroes in them like a.b.0.xx mean "the highest revision on branch a.b.xx". John -- John Polstra jdp@polstra.com John D. Polstra & Co., Inc. Seattle, Washington USA "Nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public." -- H. L. Mencken To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message