Re: cvsupfile targets

[Erik Wikström <erik-wikstrom@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 2005-08-01 20:53, Justin C. Sherrill wrote:
> On Mon, August 1, 2005 2:45 pm, George Georgalis said:
> > On Mon, Aug 01, 2005 at 09:08:27AM -0400, Justin C. Sherrill wrote:
> > > HEAD is for people who like troubleshooting strange errors.
> > > RELEASE_x.x is for people who don't like anything to go bad, ever.
> > >
> > > I run RELEASE_x.x on my home server, for instance, because I can't have
> > > that go down.
> >
> > I thought RELEASE_x.x_Slip is considered the most stable tag, because
> > it only picks up release commits (ie security or bugfix); but it won't
> > contain half a commit as the cvs tree might, if you checkout while files
> > with those tags are being committed.
>
> What's the difference between RELEASE_x.x and RELEASE_x.x_Slip?  I'm all
> unsure now.

RELEASE_x.x will give you that release while RELEASE_x.x_Slip will give
you RELEASE_x.x.y for the highest available y, which will be the release
plus bugfixes. So RELEASE_1.2 will give you DragonFly 1.2 while
RELEASE_1.2_Slip will give you DragonFly 1.2.5.

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Erik Wikström