Re: Proposing a tiny change
Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
Adrian didn't quite get the complete story out, but his last post
was
pretty close.
David> Maybe it's me that isn't understanding. If I checkout the
David> source tree using "-r r21-5-latest-beta" today I get 21-5-3
David> (unless it changed last night).
That's correct and it hasn't changed.
David> Am I guarenteed that there will be *no* changes applied
David> until you announce a 21-5-4?
Yes, in the following sense. <SNIP/>
This means that if you use the tag, you can not see any commits that
take place after my "canonical commit".
David> That I will *never* need to do cvs update until there is a
David> new beta?
There are two exceptions.
Neither of which should apply. I'm sticking with /releases/ for now.
And I don't usually act quickly enough to catch the middle of your
update. So, I don't know /what/ was causing the appearance of an update
while I was working with 21-5-1; maybe you had started to cut 21-5-3(?).
One thing I've come to suspect - perhaps I should discover the actual
version tag, e.g. r21-5-3 instead of -latest-beta.
And you've given the answer I needed. If I say "r21-5-3" & "no
local
changes" you know precisely what my source tree looks like. There is no
need to identify the date/time when I downloaded it.
Thanks,
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