Re: Oort Gnus branch

[Daniel Pittman <daniel@rimspace.net>]

On 01 Oct 2000, Kai Großjohann <Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE>
wrote:

> On Sun, 1 Oct 2000, ShengHuo ZHU wrote:
> 
>> I think it will be a new branch.
> 
> IMHO, it would be better if the main trunk was always the most current
> development version.  This way, people who use CVS get to test the
> most current version -- that's what CVS is here for, right?  Also, I
> think we expect the 5.8/5.9 lines of development to be rather short,
> no?

I would have to second this. Personal experience with CVS suggests that
you do a far, far better thing putting the newest development on head.

[...]

> Another thought is that maybe we would like to do it like Emacs does
> it.  So, how does Emacs handle the branches?

I don't know about Emacs, but XEmacs was doing trunk development on a
branch, but plan on moving it to the head branch.

        Daniel

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