Re: [Evolution-hackers] Missing svn tags for e-d-s / evolution 2.18 releases

[Frederic Crozat <fcrozat mandriva com>]

Le lundi 21 mai 2007 à 19:24 +0200, Gilles Dartiguelongue a écrit :
> Le lundi 21 mai 2007 à 17:19 +0200, Frederic Crozat a écrit :
> > Hi Evolution / E-D-S maintainers,
> > 
> > it appears that since CVS to SVN migration, no evolution / e-d-s release
> > was followed by a SVN tag creation in <module_name>/tags.
> > 
> > These tags are very useful for you, maintainers but also for
> > contributors and vendors when they try to search for changes between
> > releases.
> > 
> > Could you try to create those missing tags and make sure they are
> > created when releasing new tarballs in the future (I guess somebody
> > script was not migrated correctly to SVN ;) ?
> > 
> > Thanks you in advance.
> 
> in fact it seems evolution uses branches over tags
> 
> evolution stable branch can be found at :
>  http://svn.gnome.org/svn/evolution/branches/gnome-2-18

Branches and tags are different beast :
-branches are used to do developement for a particular release of GNOME
(here 2.18.x series)
-tags are pointing each release (ie tarball generation), regardless of
branches.

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Frederic Crozat <fcrozat mandriva com>
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