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

["Bruce Z. Lysik" <eldrik logrus com>]

On Tue, 22 Dec 1998 23:41:52 +0800 (WST)  James Henstridge wrote:
> 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).

Er.  This isn't too clear to me.  I'm still wondering what branch you
get if you don't specify anything with -r. 

If I do a 'cvs -z3 co gnome-libs' do I get GNOME_STABLE or HEAD?

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