From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 24481 invoked by alias); 12 Mar 2002 17:24:37 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 24426 invoked from network); 12 Mar 2002 17:24:34 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO Cantor.suse.de) (213.95.15.193) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 12 Mar 2002 17:24:34 -0000 Received: from Hermes.suse.de (Hermes.suse.de [213.95.15.136]) by Cantor.suse.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 828E61E110; Tue, 12 Mar 2002 18:24:33 +0100 (MET) X-Authentication-Warning: sykes.suse.de: schwab set sender to schwab@suse.de using -f To: Andrew Cagney Cc: Paul Hilfinger , gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: Confusion regarding gdb_5_1_1-2002-01-24-release tag References: <20020312104857.1D75BF28C9@nile.gnat.com> <3C8E2887.10001@cygnus.com> X-Yow: Oh, I get it!! ``The BEACH goes on,'' huh, SONNY?? From: Andreas Schwab Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2002 09:24:00 -0000 In-Reply-To: <3C8E2887.10001@cygnus.com> (Andrew Cagney's message of "Tue, 12 Mar 2002 11:10:47 -0500") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.090005 (Oort Gnus v0.05) Emacs/21.2.50 (ia64-suse-linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-SW-Source: 2002-03/txt/msg00184.txt.bz2 Andrew Cagney writes: |> > No doubt this question simply reflects my aversion to CVS, but here goes: |> > a cvs log run on gdb/value.h shows that tag gdb_5_1_1-2002-01-24-release |> > is defined as 1.21. Revision 1.21 of gdb/value.h is dated 2001/05/21. |> > Revision 1.26 is dated 2002/01/04. This appears not to be the only |> > example. What gives? |> > Thanks. |> |> Looking at the branch/point tags: |> |> gdb_5_1-2001-07-29-branch: 1.20.0.4 |> gdb_5_1-2001-07-29-branchpoint: 1.20 |> |> gdb_5_1_1-2002-01-24-release: 1.20 |> |> GDB's releases are drawn from a branch. After the branch was cut a number |> of changes on the trunk were made but never on the branch. |> |> See if you can find a tool for browsing CVS branches (tkcvs on |> sourceforge?, others?). It makes life a lot easier. The viewcvs interface on savannah has a pretty nice feature: you can get a graphical revision tree for a file. Maybe this could be made available on sourceware as well. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, SuSE Labs, schwab@suse.de SuSE GmbH, Deutschherrnstr. 15-19, D-90429 Nürnberg Key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different."