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Re: Obsolete installation instructions and inconvenient CVS HOWTO
- From: Gerald Pfeifer <pfeifer at dbai dot tuwien dot ac dot at>
- To: Reichelt <reichelt at igpm dot rwth-aachen dot de>
- Cc: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Mon, 28 Oct 2002 14:58:24 +0100 (CET)
- Subject: Re: Obsolete installation instructions and inconvenient CVS HOWTO
On Mon, 28 Oct 2002, Reichelt wrote:
> Second, it would be nice if the paragraph about
> "CVS tags and checkouts"
> in
> http://gcc.gnu.org/cvs.html
> would mention how to check out the current 3.2-branch instead of the
> 3.0-branch:
>
> "You can check out the latest version of the GCC 3.0 release branch with
> the following command: cvs -z 9 co -rgcc-3_0-branch gcc".
Fixed thusly.
Provide general instructions on how to check out a release branch.
Gerald
Index: cvs.html
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@@ -107,13 +107,15 @@ or the generator files, it is safe to de
<h3>CVS tags and checkouts</h3>
-<p> You can check out the latest version of the GCC 3.0 release
-branch with the following command:</p>
+<p> You can check out the latest version of the GCC <em>x</em>.<em>y</em>
+release branch with the following command:</p>
-<blockquote><p><code>cvs -z 9 co -rgcc-3_0-branch gcc</code></p></blockquote>
+<blockquote><p>
+<code>cvs -z 9 co -rgcc-<em>x</em>_<em>y</em>-branch gcc</code>
+</p></blockquote>
<p>By changing the <code>-r</code> argument above you can check out
-particular releases or snapshots or the latest snapshot. Other tags/branches
+particular releases or snapshots or the latest snapshot. Tags/branches
you may want to check out include:</p>
<ul>