RE: Understanding Branches and Releases

[Chuck . Irvine]

Scott,

These basic concepts are covered very well in the cvs documentation. 
Please see http://cvshome.org/docs/. Thanks

Chuck

> -----Original Message-----
> From: scott.johnson1 [mailto:address@hidden
> Sent: Thursday, May 03, 2001 4:04 PM
> To: info-cvs
> Subject: Understanding Branches and Releases
> 
> 
> 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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