[Biojava-l] CVS biojava-live and 1.2

[Matthew Pocock]

Schreiber, Mark wrote:
> Hi -
> 
> For the less CVS literate amongst us (or just me) how can I set up CVS 
> to capture the 1.2 branch and the biojava-live branch (and any other 
> branch for that matter).
> 
> Actually could someone summarise what brances there are and what each 
> one could be used for?


Hi Mark,

CVS allows the source-code to be forked, or branched so that multiple 
independant versions of a single file can be maintained. This is 
probably a bad thing in most cases, but comes in realy handy for making 
and maintaining releases. The development tree is forked at the point we 
want to build a release. Then, the trunk can be modified (files 
added/removed, bugs fixed), and the release branch can be maintained 
(bugs fixed). The main 'branch' is called the trunk, and the most recent 
files on the trunk are the HEAD. (can a CVS guru correct me if I am 
talking rubbish?). The most recent files on a branch can be checked out 
using the branch tag. We usualy tag the branches for each binary 
release, so if you want to jump to *exactly* those files that went into 
a particlular release, you can check out the repository using that tag.

Here's a diagram (almost certainly wrong).



The beginning -> -> -> -> -> -> -> -> the future

-root-------1.1 devel----1.2 devel---1.3 devel---
                        \            \
                    1.1 release   1.2 release
                         \             \
                     1.1 rc1        1.2 rc1
                          \
                      1.1 rc2
                           \
                       1.1.0
                            \
                         1.1.1


Matthew