AW: AW: Best practise with tagging

[Guus Leeuw jr.]

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> Auftrag von Xanana Gusmao
> Gesendet: donderdag 7 oktober 2004 10:52
> Betreff: Re: AW: Best practise with tagging
> 
> Guus,
> 
> > I would suggest "Before any ... You must branch the module with a 
> > release tag"
> 
> Yes that makes sense. Code release should come from a branch 
> which is the stable version of everything from HEAD. That 
> branch should be tagged. 
> 
> The next question: In a tagged branch, is it advisable to 
> retag it ? What scenarios would force us to retag it? I think 
> it should be left alone indefinitely. All bug fixes on the 
> branch will sooner or later be merge back to the trunk.

Every time you do a merge from the branch back on the trunk, you need to cvs
tag -f branch_merged the branch , so you can upd -j branch_merged -j branch
the next bug fix to the trunk.

Guus

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