Re: Problems with uncommitted working directories, from homeand work.

[Eric Siegerman]

On Tue, Dec 02, 2003 at 11:04:54AM -0700, Larry Lords wrote:
> I have a question on Jim's statement "Private branches are never considered
> candidates for releases or for builds".

The operative word is "private".

> I have always understood that a company
> would always release from a private branch.

No; from a *non*-private branch.  Other than that detail, your
description of a branch-based release process sounds bang on.

CVS doesn't distinguish between private and non-private branches;
from its point of view they're all just "cvs tag -b <branch>"
branches.  The only difference is in your intention in creating
thebranch, and thus what you subsequently do with it; CVS doesn't
know or care.  Hence Jim's suggestion of a naming scheme so your
team can keep all those different-purposed branches straight.

(Vendor branches, which of course CVS does treat specially, don't
come into this discussion at all.)

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