[Asterisk-Dev] Re: cvs revision tags

[Kevin Hanson]

Rod Dorman wrote:

>On Sunday, November 20, 2005, 17:24:03, SteveK wrote:
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>>On Nov 20, 2005, at 5:07 PM, Rod Dorman wrote:
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>>>The only remaining question I have is will any bug/security patches
>>>ever be applied to the v1-2-0 branch, i.e. is there ever any point to
>>>doing a "cvs update -r v1-2-0" ?
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>>v1-2-0 is probably not a branch, but a tag;  so (unless the tags are  
>>moved), it would never change.  It is probably exactly equivalent to  
>>v1.2.0.
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>>If you already have v1.2.0, cvs update -r v1-2-0 should do nothing.
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>>It's there to document exactly what v1.2.0 is; similarly, v1-2-1 will  
>>document v1.2.1, etc.
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>OK,  I guess the question I should be asking is, is there a branch based
>on  version  1.2.0  that  will  have  critical  bug and security patches
>applied to it but not experimental/new feature code changes.
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>It  would  be  the  equivalent of what OpenBSD calls the patch or stable
>branch  http://www.openbsd.org/stable.html  essentially  it's  what  one
>would want to track on a production system.
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I don't know how critical bugs and security patches will be handled, but 
some recent CVS head commits were ported/committed to tag v1-2.  Doing 
an update with -r v1-2-0 won't pick those up.

Cheers,
Kevin