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RE: Vendor Branches
From: |
John Birtley |
Subject: |
RE: Vendor Branches |
Date: |
Sun, 5 Jan 2003 02:00:32 -0000 |
Thanks for the reply. I'll try and write some scripts to do it the copy
and add way.
My sincere apologies for the HTML - I recently set up this machine and I
hadnt checked the mail format. HTML was the default - thanks for
pointing it out.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Greg A. Woods [mailto:address@hidden
> Sent: 04 January 2003 23:25
> To: John Birtley
> Cc: address@hidden
> Subject: Re: Vendor Branches
>
>
> [ On Saturday, January 4, 2003 at 20:05:46 (-0000), John
> Birtley wrote: ]
> > Subject: Vendor Branches
> >
> > The problem is that I want to be able to copy the latest version on
> > the vendor branch to the latest version on the INTEGRATION branch,
> > since all integration testing and tagging is to be done from this
> > branch, i.e.:
>
> You cannot safely mix normal branches in modules with vendor
> branches and still expect full and normal functionality from CVS.
>
> To do what you want you'll have to manually "import" (i.e.
> copy and add) new vendor releases to a normal branch and then
> manually merge to the other branches you wish to maintain..
>
>
> BTW:
>
> > <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">
>
> Please DO NOT EVER send HTML, rich text, or otherwise
> stylized e-mail, especially not to me or to any public
> mailing list. Not all mail readers will recognize such
> formats, and their added volume is generally a total waste of
> bandwidth, storage, and processing power for everyone. HTML
> in particular is a potential security threat and many
> firewalls and some mailing lists filter it entirely --
> especially since CERT and Microsoft have jointly anounced a
> very major flaw in the HTML rendering engine used in all
> Microsoft products (in versions still widely in use, and
> which isn't even properly fixed in the most recent releases).
>
> For more information see, for instance, the following article:
>
http://www.georgedillon.com/web/html_email_is_evil.shtml
Please send all your messages as plain text only.
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Greg A.
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