Re: [HACKERS] Stupid CVS question

On Fri, 5 Mar 1999, James Thompson wrote:

> 
> I've been using the cvs,which I assumed was pre 6.5, copy of postgresql in
> a project I'm working on. With the recent talk of a 6.4.3 being released I
> was wondering which version cvs actually reflects.  I'm green with CVS so
> if I'm missing something obvious feel free to whack me on the head.
> Thanks!
> 
> I log into cvs and download like this
> 
> cvs -d :pserver:anoncvs@postgresql.org:/usr/local/cvsroot login
> cvs -d :pserver:anoncvs@postgresql.org:/usr/local/cvsroot co pgsql

with the above, youare getting the development branch...

If you do:

cvs -d :pserver:anoncvs@postgresql.org:/usr/local/cvsroot co -rREL6_4
pgsql

you'll get the "stable" branch

Marc G. Fournier                                
Systems Administrator @ hub.org 
primary: scrappy@hub.org           secondary: scrappy@{freebsd|postgresql}.org