Brooks Davis wrote: > On Thu, May 02, 2002 at 03:15:53PM -0700, Drew Tomlinson wrote: > > I'm just trying to understand. :) How is RELENG_X_Y_BP different from > > RELENG_X_Y_RELEASE? > > RELENG_X_Y_BP is the point on RELENG_X where the RELENG_X_Y branch was > created. RELENG_X_Y_0_RELEASE is the point on the RELENG_X_Y branch > which corresponds to what ends up in the actual release. It generally > has a few changes relative to the branch point point, but not too many. > RELENG_X_Y_BP is mostly an artifact of the way CVS works and is of little > if any real intrest. There certaintly isn't any real point in checking > it out.
Exactly. It's there to branch, and to provide something so you can "cvs diff -r RELENG_X_Y_BP" a checked out tree to get patches to move them between parallel heads (-STABLE vs. -SECURITY) that supposedly contain "some of the same code" and "more of the same code", both "relative to the same branch point". -STABLE is called -STABLE these days, but RELENG_X -STABLE is really RELENG_X_Y + changes pending RELENG_X_(Y+1). Way back when, I think we had a long knock-down drag-out fight about naming of -STABLE vs. -DEVEL, and the expectations users have about the resulting code. That was where -SECURITY showed up: -SECURITY is a "stable version of -STABLE" (as if things weren't exciting enough... 8-) 8-)). -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
