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Re: Draft: Changes concerning GCC snapshots (and releases)
Phil Edwards <phil@jaj.com> writes:
|> On Tue, Jul 01, 2003 at 04:59:52PM +0200, Gerald Pfeifer wrote:
|> >
|> > Do you prefer "main", "mainline" or "head" to refer to mainline/CVS head
|> > in the names of snapshot directories?
|> [...]
|> > o The names of the snapshot directories shall include the name of the
|> > relevant branch in GCC's CVS repository in addition to the date, or
|> > "head" in the case of current mainline.
|>
|> To me, "head" refers to the active tip of whatever branch the user is
|> thinking about, e.g., "head of mainline," "head of 3.3," etc.
For cvs, HEAD designates the most recent revision in the repository,
ie. the latest revision on the main trunk.
Andreas.
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