On Thu, 2002-04-25 at 15:41, Christian Biesinger wrote: > > > Sorry, I don't see why that changes when putting each 1.0.x release on a > > > seperate branch? > > > > Too often it's been like this: > > 1. Release is tagged. > > 2. Potentially unstable changes that have been held back waiting for the > > release are commited. > > 3. Someone discovers some bad bug in the release. > > 4. A retag is needed, but special care has to be taken so those changes > > made in 2 won't create other problems, needing yet another retag. > > Ah, ok. Yeah, that sounds like a good reason for branching.
Actually, CVS branches are rooted on a tag. So you can, at any time, make a branch if it should be needed from the tag made in (1). Jesper
