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Re: CVS branches RFC


On Tue, Sep 25, 2001 at 08:12:48AM +1000, Robert Collins wrote:
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Christopher Faylor" <cgf@redhat.com>
>To: <cygwin-developers@cygwin.com>
>Sent: Tuesday, September 25, 2001 7:01 AM
>Subject: Re: CVS branches RFC
>
>
>> On Mon, Sep 24, 2001 at 11:38:49PM +1000, Robert Collins wrote:
>> >The thoughts here are derived from my experience with squid
>> >development...
>> >
>> >I find that being able to create numerous small cvs branches for
>> >specific development tasks has made a significant difference to the
>> >squid development rate. Pretty much _everything_ that is new or
>> >non-trivial is developed on a branch first, and then brought into
>HEAD.
>>
>> This is a fine idea.  Please feel free to develop on branches.
>
>Thank you, I will :]. Would you like me to convert over the doco about
>the scripts and how to use them, for cygwin developers to refer to?
>
>Also, I just want to confirm that there is no issue with creating the
>tags at the src level (given the number of projects in the src module
>I'm a leetle nervous) - so that winsup and newlib are both caught. The
>script creates two branchs for each working branch - one by the branch
>name (ie cygwin_daemon) and another to track the difference between HEAD
>and cygwin_daemon - Z_cygwin_daemon_merge_HEAD. This allows diff
>creation, without respect to the current state of HEAD. I.e. HEAD
>development does not invalidate the branch state.

If people think that scripts are a good idea, that's fine with me.

I don't think that I really have the authority to allow people to
create branches in newlib.  Maybe we should get permission from
newlib@sources.redhat.com before creating branches there.

Should we create another directory in winsup for dealing with
these kind of things like "winsup/scripts" or "winsup/maint"?

cgf


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