From: Jesper Skov (jskov@redhat.com)
Date: Thu Apr 25 2002 - 12:09:46 EDT
On Thu, 2002-04-25 at 15:41, Christian Biesinger wrote:
> > > Sorry, I don't see why that changes when putting each 1.0.x release on a
> > > seperate branch?
> >
> > Too often it's been like this:
> > 1. Release is tagged.
> > 2. Potentially unstable changes that have been held back waiting for the
> > release are commited.
> > 3. Someone discovers some bad bug in the release.
> > 4. A retag is needed, but special care has to be taken so those changes
> > made in 2 won't create other problems, needing yet another retag.
>
> Ah, ok. Yeah, that sounds like a good reason for branching.
Actually, CVS branches are rooted on a tag. So you can, at any time,
make a branch if it should be needed from the tag made in (1).
Jesper
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