From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG  Tue Jun  5 06:09:51 2012
Return-Path: <owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG>
Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52])
	by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2C9AA106564A;
	Tue,  5 Jun 2012 06:09:51 +0000 (UTC)
	(envelope-from linimon@lonesome.com)
Received: from mail.soaustin.net (pancho.soaustin.net [76.74.250.40])
	by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9431D8FC12;
	Tue,  5 Jun 2012 06:09:50 +0000 (UTC)
Received: by mail.soaustin.net (Postfix, from userid 502)
	id 5DEB856205; Tue,  5 Jun 2012 01:09:50 -0500 (CDT)
Date: Tue, 5 Jun 2012 01:09:50 -0500
From: Mark Linimon <linimon@lonesome.com>
To: Erich <erichfreebsdlist@ovitrap.com>
Message-ID: <20120605060950.GC32448@lonesome.com>
References: <C480320C-0CD9-4B61-8AFB-37085C820AB7@FreeBSD.org>
	<2490439.EC638TI0j3@x220.ovitrap.com>
	<20120605053316.CDE9A2145078@drugs.dv.isc.org>
	<2188078.y2TVGRxzTH@x220.ovitrap.com>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Disposition: inline
In-Reply-To: <2188078.y2TVGRxzTH@x220.ovitrap.com>
User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14)
Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, Mark Andrews <marka@isc.org>,
	Chris Rees <crees@freebsd.org>,
	"freebs @mail.isc.org>> Current FreeBSD" <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>,
	"O. Hartmann" <ohartman@zedat.fu-berlin.de>,
	Adam Strohl <adams-freebsd@ateamsystems.com>
Subject: Re: Why Are You NOT Using FreeBSD?
X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org
X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5
Precedence: list
List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current
	<freebsd-current.freebsd.org>
List-Unsubscribe: <http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current>, 
	<mailto:freebsd-current-request@freebsd.org?subject=unsubscribe>
List-Archive: <http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current>
List-Post: <mailto:freebsd-current@freebsd.org>
List-Help: <mailto:freebsd-current-request@freebsd.org?subject=help>
List-Subscribe: <http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current>,
	<mailto:freebsd-current-request@freebsd.org?subject=subscribe>
X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 05 Jun 2012 06:09:51 -0000

On Tue, Jun 05, 2012 at 01:00:45PM +0700, Erich wrote:
> All of these, with the exception of HEAD (which is always a valid tag),
> only apply to the src/ tree. The ports/, doc/, and www/ trees are not
> branched.

If you create a branch, you must create a tag for that branch.

However, you can create a tag without creating a branch.  That is what
is done for the ports tree.

It's not particularly easy to see this on cvsweb.  But let's take a look
at a random Mk/bsd.*.mk file via 'cvs log':

  RCS file: /home/FreeBSD/pcvs/ports/Mk/bsd.apache.mk,v
  Working file: bsd.apache.mk
  head: 1.36
  branch:
  locks: strict
  access list:
  symbolic names:
          RELEASE_8_3_0: 1.35
          RELEASE_9_0_0: 1.33
          RELEASE_7_4_0: 1.26
          RELEASE_8_2_0: 1.26
          RELEASE_6_EOL: 1.26
  [...]
          RELEASE_6_1_0: 1.9
          RELEASE_5_5_0: 1.9
  keyword substitution: kv
  total revisions: 36;    selected revisions: 36
  description:
  ----------------------------
  revision 1.36
  date: 2012/05/23 08:17:48;  author: miwi;  state: Exp;  lines: +2 -2
  - Remove emacs mode, -*- mode: ...; -*- [1]
  - Comments for BUILD_ and RUN_DEPENDS fail to mention alternate means to specify dependencie [2]
  - Fix make reinstall [3]
  - Trivial comment change for PORTDATA [4]
  [...]

and so forth.

The line "RELEASE_8_3_0: 1.35" tells you "the version of this file
as of tag RELEASE_8_3_0 was r1.35."  So that's what's on the 8.3R
distribution media.

mcl