From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Mar 24 14:25:49 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 97AB537B401 for ; Mon, 24 Mar 2003 14:25:47 -0800 (PST) Received: from smtp3.server.rpi.edu (smtp3.server.rpi.edu [128.113.2.3]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9C48F43F3F for ; Mon, 24 Mar 2003 14:25:46 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from drosih@rpi.edu) Received: from [128.113.24.47] (gilead.netel.rpi.edu [128.113.24.47]) by smtp3.server.rpi.edu (8.12.8/8.12.7) with ESMTP id h2OMPjQA019434; Mon, 24 Mar 2003 17:25:45 -0500 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: drosih@mail.rpi.edu Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <20030324115724.S25843-100000@diana.northnetworks.ca> References: <20030324115724.S25843-100000@diana.northnetworks.ca> Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2003 17:25:43 -0500 To: Steve Bertrand , freebsd From: Garance A Drosihn Subject: Re: Personal development CVS question Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.28 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-22.9 required=5.0 tests=EMAIL_ATTRIBUTION,IN_REP_TO,REFERENCES,REPLY_WITH_QUOTES autolearn=ham version=2.50 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.50 (1.173-2003-02-20-exp) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 12:04 PM -0500 3/24/03, Steve Bertrand wrote: >The current state of my app is ready for production, so I would >like to take a snapshot of it as is, then implement it. I would >like to leave this snapshot alone, and further develop in other >aspects of the program now. Am I correct with this method?: > >- commit my current source and branch as RELEASE >- download RELEASE onto production server and put into use > >- further work will continue normally, and the RELEASE branch > will not be affected > >- when I am ready for the new features, I can re-branch to a > new RELEASE, redownload onto production and repeat You generally want to use a special name for the release branch, such as RELEASE_1. When you later want to make a new release, you name that branch RELEASE_2. You may still want to work off the RELEASE_1 branch even though RELEASE_2 has been made. -- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@gilead.netel.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or gad@freebsd.org Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute or drosih@rpi.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message