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

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