[mythtv-users] Clarification on various svns

Brian Walter blwalter at gmail.com
Wed Apr 25 16:18:18 UTC 2007


Chris Pinkham wrote:
> * On Wed Apr 25, 2007 at 11:53:28AM -0400, Brian Walter wrote:
>   
>> I see three possibilities:
>>
>> svn-trunk (I interpret this to be least changing of the 3...after fixes 
>> have settled, and are accepted, they are merged into trunk)
>>     
>
> Actually trunk the the development branch and has the most changes
> in it.
>
>   
>> svv-20-fixes (The true bleeding edge?)
>>     
>
> If something is a true fix and is stable then it gets merged into
> the -fixes branch.
>
>   
>> svn-20.1 (Unclear as to what this branch is...).
>>     
>
> The 0.20.1 branch is a tag for what Jarod Wilson is going to cut
> the 0.20.1 tarballs from.  There also may be some RPMS/etc. generated
> from this branch as well.  This was generated as a branch off of the
> -fixes branch.  Don't expect many changes to go into this branch
> because right now the plan is to keep putting fixes into the -fixes
> branch although this may change sometime in the future.  If it does
> change and we start using a release-0-20-1-fixes branch then you
> could expect to see a few posts about it on the -dev and -commits
> list which you subscribe to since you're planning on using svn.
>
> --
> Chris
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Thanks!  That clears things up.  The howto *implies* that trunk is the 
more stable...just by the fact that it's first.

And yep, I subscribe to all pertinent lists.

Thanks for the quick response...Looks like a re-compile is in order.

Brian


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