Branches new doc?

David Rio drio at perpels.com
Tue Jul 22 13:43:37 UTC 2003


Thanks for all the answers. Now I have get it.
All you were right, as always, all the information was 
out there.

Thanks again.

On Tue, Jul 22, 2003 at 12:33:19PM +0200, David Rio wrote:
> Hi all:
> 
> I thought I have already understood the FreeBSD source control system
> but during this days I have discover that I was wrong.
> 
> Normally I use FreeBSD on production machines so I install 4.7 or 4.8.
> Finally I decided to install FreeBSD on my new laptop and I thougth 
> that 5.1 would be the best option. 
> After install it, I wanted to update the sources against the central
> repository. I thought, what will be the best branch to follow for me?
> -STABLE. But after some readings I discovered that there is no such
> Branch for 5.1. So if I install 5.1 I just can follow -CURRENT or 
> the patch branch.
> After travel against the central repository using cvsweb, I realize
> that there are branchs that I didn't know about. 
> 
> So, in conclusion, don't you think there is a lack of documentation
> about this topic? If not, please point me to the rigth documentation
> because it is crucial for me to understand all about this topic.
> 
> Thanks and apologize if this is not the right place to put this. 
> 
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