Re: tagging and branching the ROOT CVS repository

From: Fons Rademakers (Fons.Rademakers@cern.ch)
Date: Fri Oct 15 1999 - 12:42:25 MEST


Hi Matt,

   I am setting thing up right now and will provide the tag as you
proposed.

Cheers, Fons.



"Matthew D. Langston" wrote:
> 
> Hi Rene and Fons,
> 
> Would you mind tagging and branching the ROOT CVS Repository please?
> Assuming that the latest revisions on the main trunk correspond to ROOT
> 2.23.04, then something like the following would do.:
> 
>   $ cvs co root
>   $ cvs tag Release_2_23_04
>   $ cvs rtag -b -r Release_2_23_04 Release_2_23_04-branch root
> 
> Without these tags and branches, we (your anonymous CVS users) will only
> be able to update to the latest sources.  It is much more likely (and in
> practice, much more common and useful) for your users to want to update
> to the latest sources for a particular release (e.g. because you have
> fixed bugs for us that pertain only to that release).
> 
> CVS tags and branches are cheap, safe and unobtrusive changes to a CVS
> repository.  I hope you'll consider making them for us.  Thank you :-)
> 
> --
> Matthew D. Langston
> SLD, Stanford Linear Accelerator Center
> langston@SLAC.Stanford.EDU

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