Date: Sat, 08 Apr 2006 18:03:49 -0600 From: Scott Long <scottl@samsco.org> To: Rong-En Fan <grafan@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: RELENG_6_1 Message-ID: <44384F65.4060007@samsco.org> In-Reply-To: <6eb82e0604081658m74f2f15ata6e624cfa71c1aa1@mail.gmail.com> References: <6eb82e0604081602u314fd213lf628319174d383e2@mail.gmail.com> <44384B77.8010006@samsco.org> <6eb82e0604081658m74f2f15ata6e624cfa71c1aa1@mail.gmail.com>
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Rong-En Fan wrote: > On 4/8/06, Scott Long <scottl@samsco.org> wrote: > >>Rong-En Fan wrote: >> >>>Hi, >>> >>>According to the webpage [1], 6.1 has been branched on April 5. However, >>>I noticed that there is a tag called RELENG_6_1, not a branch called >>>RELENG_6_1. For example, sys/conf/newvers.sh [2], rev 1.69.2.11, >>>is on RELENG_6 branch with tag RELENG_6_1_BP and RELENG_6_1. >>> >>>It is a bit strange for me. At least, we have RELENG_X_Y branch before >>>and RELENG_X_Y_BP tag. Is there any special reason that we have >>>a tag instead of a branch for 6.1? >> >>RELENG_6_1 is a branch tag (or at least it should have been unless I >>screwed it up). The _BP tag always comes before the branch tag. I >>just checked CVS and it appears to agree with this. Can you give an >>example of what is wrong? > > > http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/sys/conf/newvers.sh > > When 6.0 is branched and moves to RC, it shows > > Revision 1.69.2.8 / (download) - annotate - [select for diffs], Sun > Oct 9 16:59:34 2005 UTC (5 months, 4 weeks ago) by scottl > Branch: RELENG_6 > CVS Tags: RELENG_6_0_BP > Branch point for: RELENG_6_0 > > When 6.1 moves to RC, it shows > > Revision 1.69.2.11 / (download) - annotate - [select for diffs], Sat > Apr 8 14:42:23 2006 UTC (9 hours, 9 minutes ago) by scottl > Branch: RELENG_6 > CVS Tags: RELENG_6_1_BP, RELENG_6_1 > > I expected to see something like the case for 6.0. I didn't see a > branch point for: RELENG_6_1 here. Did I miss something > or cvsweb shows the wrong information? > > Hope we can see 6.1 RELEASE soon :-) > > Thanks, > Rong-En Fan CVS treats branches as tags with special properties. You won't see what you're expecting until there is another commit to that file. What is probably confusing you is that I cheated and slid the tag on newvers.sh after I did the commit, since I meant to do the commit before the tag. Scott
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