Re: Develop on branch or mainline...

[Harald Kucharek]

Matthew Persico wrote:

> "Wim Kerkhoff" <address@hidden> wrote in message
> news:address@hidden
>
>
> > What most people suggest to develop on the mainline. Fixes for past
> > releases, expiremental development, and so on are done on branches, then
> > merged back to the mainline as appropriate.
>
> But what if I have released 1.7, commited 1.8 and 1.9 but not released them
> and need to fix 1.7. Can I create 1.7.1.1 if 1.8 exists?


If you make a release, you should always tag this release. Then it is no
problem to branch at this point later to do some fixes.
Also, don't mix cvs revision numbers (like 1.7, 1.7.1.1, etc) with your
release versions. A project surely has multiple files and not every one will
have revision 1.7. Try to ignore cvs revision numbers, think in tags and 
branches.

Harald



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