cvs tag usage

[b. f.]

Glen Barber <glen.j.barber at gmail.com> wrote:
>On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 1:43 PM, David Southwell<david at vizion2000.net> wrote:
>> I am confused about the usage of the tag for src.
>>
>> I took a look at the web pages and found the following choices:
>>
>> _7_BP
>> _7_2_BP
>
>BP ?
>

It is the "branchpoint" tag, made when a release branch is first created:

http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/releng/release-proc.html

It is not documented in most places because it is primarily of
interest to developers.

>> _7_2_0_RELEASE
>
>Should be RELENG.  Don't blindly follow how-tos.
>

RELENG_7_2_0_RELEASE is a valid tag.  Don't make pronouncements if you
haven't verified them.

>> _7_2
>>
>> But could not find anything that told me where -p2 fits into this!!
>>
>
>http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/cvsup.html

More to the point is the following page in the handbook:

http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/cvs-tags.html

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