From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Oct 6 07:36:24 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id HAA01817 for stable-outgoing; Mon, 6 Oct 1997 07:36:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable) Received: from GndRsh.aac.dev.com (GndRsh.aac.dev.com [198.145.92.241]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id HAA01812 for ; Mon, 6 Oct 1997 07:36:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rgrimes@GndRsh.aac.dev.com) Received: (from rgrimes@localhost) by GndRsh.aac.dev.com (8.8.5/8.7.3) id HAA00223; Mon, 6 Oct 1997 07:36:00 -0700 (PDT) From: "Rodney W. Grimes" Message-Id: <199710061436.HAA00223@GndRsh.aac.dev.com> Subject: Re: CVSUP vs. SNAPS In-Reply-To: <11918.875811660@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at "Oct 2, 97 10:01:00 am" To: jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Date: Mon, 6 Oct 1997 07:36:00 -0700 (PDT) Cc: andrsn@andrsn.stanford.edu, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL25 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > Please, not again, don't duplicate the errors of your past handling > > of this. > > > > The sequence of commits should be something that creates > > > > 2.2-STABLE (where we are today) > > 2.2.5-BETA (for while we are in BETA on the branch) > > 2.2.5-RELEASE (when you finally roll the puppy up) > > 2.2.5-STABLE (after you roll the release). > > That would be totally and utterly bogus. And I suppose you'll replace my above ``2.2.5-STABLE'' with ``2.2-STABLE'', like that isn't totally bogus too! 2.2 < 2.2.5, thats going backwards, and makes it very hard to tell if this ``STABLE'' is post 2.2.1, post 2.2.2, or post 2.2.5! YOUR CONFUSING THE USERS, AND MY CLIENTS!!!! -- Rod Grimes rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com Accurate Automation, Inc. Reliable computers for FreeBSD