Re: [HACKERS] Open the flood gates...v6.4 is tag'd...

On Wed, 4 Nov 1998, Tom Lane wrote:

> >     Well, v6.4 is branched and in a "released state"...those wanting
> > to start moving on, go for it.
> 
> I did a fresh 'cvs checkout' just now to make sure I had a good set
> of files, and was dismayed to discover that a whole bunch of dead
> subdirectories have reappeared in the CVS tree.  For example,
>     pgsql/contrib/ip_and_mac
>     pgsql/contrib/multikey
>     pgsql/contrib/plpgsql
>     pgsql/contrib/sequence
>     pgsql/contrib/zap_ltv
> which have nothing in them except CVS overhead.
> 
> I suppose this is a side effect of marking things "branched" ...
> When you have time to spare on prettification, can you make those
> directories go away again?
Did you use the -P option?  when you checkout, you should do:
cvs checkout -P pgsql
It gets rid of the 'dead' directories tha way...

> > Those with committer's access to the source tree, Thomas and I are
> > working up docs for how to access the REL6_4 branch...
> 
> I assume if I just check in without paying attention, I will be
> checking into the 6.5-to-be branch?
If you didn't check out the v6.4 release explicitly (using -r
REL6_4), you wont' check into it either...

Marc G. Fournier                                
Systems Administrator @ hub.org 
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