Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1998 20:38:55 -0800 (PST) From: John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com> To: mph@pobox.com Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How do I check out the 2.2.7-STABLE sources from the repository? Message-ID: <199811180438.UAA25265@vashon.polstra.com> In-Reply-To: <19981117154840.A27772@wopr.caltech.edu> References: <3651FBA2.F2A49CA6@ifi.uio.no> <19981117150050.B26428@wopr.caltech.edu> <365209D2.EC1C5432@ifi.uio.no>
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In article <19981117154840.A27772@wopr.caltech.edu>, Matthew Hunt <mph@pobox.com> wrote: > On Wed, Nov 18, 1998 at 12:42:10AM +0100, Pål Sommerhein wrote: > > > RELENG_2_2_7_RELEASE:1.109.2.33 > > RELENG_2_2:1.109.0.2 > > Your confusion is understandable, but I guess the mysterious inner > workings of CVS are such that 1.109.0.2 can be newer than 1.109.2.33. > Or perhaps somehow CVS takes that to mean that it should get the > highest revision among the 1.109.2.xx revisions. Bingo -- that's exactly it. The magic revision numbers with zeroes in them like a.b.0.xx mean "the highest revision on branch a.b.xx". John -- John Polstra jdp@polstra.com John D. Polstra & Co., Inc. Seattle, Washington USA "Nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public." -- H. L. Mencken To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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