Understanding Branches and Releases

[Scott Johnson]

Hi all,
I am a new user to CVS and I have couple of questions for you guys. Right 
now I am in great need of understanding how the branches and the releases 
work together. First of all, are branches called revisions? How do we create 
a branch...how do they interact with the releases and the significance of a 
tag included in a branch. Could you please include a diagram in showing the 
relationship of a branches and releases.

Please help me figure out through this example.

1)Initially I have release 1.0 with the following corresponding files.

release 1.0
-----------
file 1.0
file 2.0
file 3.0
file 4.0
file 5.0
file 6.0

2) Later down the road i want to create a new release 1.1 with the following 
asterisk files included in it. Do i just create a new branch first and then 
I create a new release? If i create release 1.1 will I need to incorporate 
these changes in version 1.0? How would a graphic picture look like under 
this circumstance?


release 1.0        To be created
---------------------------------
* file 1.0
file 2.0           * file 2.1
* file 3.0
* file 4.0
file 5.0
file 6.0           * file 6.1


My sincere apologies for sounding dumb. Please help me out.

Thanks,

Scott
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