From: Jamis Buck <jgb3@...>
Date: 2004-08-27T14:10:49+09:00
Subject: Re: [OT] CVS question

Austin Ziegler wrote:

> I would tag the existing version -- and perhaps even branch it. All
> of my programs and libraries are tagged and branched on major
> releases (e.g., X.0.0 or X.Y.0). A notable exception is Ruwiki
> 0.8.0; it will not be branched until 0.8.1 becuase of some known
> large changes that I want to carry forward to 0.9 even with planned
> bugfixes.
> 
> At any rate, tag and branch copland as it stands. Then, do a CVS
> delete on those files that no longer exist in copland. After adding
> the new files, update, then tag and branch again.
> 
> -austin

Thanks for the advice, Austin. I'm familiar with tagging, but I guess I 
better just bite the bullet and read up on branching. Branching is one 
of the areas of CVS that just hasn't clicked for me, yet. If it's not 
too much trouble, could someone explain in just a couple of sentences 
what branching would buy me in this case? It might help me understand 
better what that feature is really useful for...

Thanks!

-- 
Jamis Buck
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