Re: Failed to build GNOME at Tue Dec 22 04:48:51 CST 1998 (fwd)

[James Henstridge <james daa com au>]

using the -r flag to CVS specifies a tag to check out on the CVS (so a tag
is basically a set of revisions for the different files).  For branches,
you have a sticky tag that gets moved when new checkings are made to that
branch (GNOME_STABLE and HEAD for example).

So -r whatever will do what you think it does.  Note that AFAIK, only
gnome-libs and gnome-core have stable 1.0 branches so far.  For other
packages, you are probably best checking out off the head (except for
things like ORBit where you may be using the FOR_PANEL tag).

Jame Henstridge.

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On Tue, 22 Dec 1998 sml13@cornell.edu wrote:

> Gnome-guile died on me this morning.
> 
> Does anyone know:  When you check out from CVS without specifying the '-r 
> <VERSION>' option, which one does it use -- HEAD or STABLE?  This is how 
> I checkout, so I am just wondering what I am getting (I'm too lazy to 
> insert a special case thing in my script for gnome-libs and gnome-core).
> 
> shane
>