Jonathon, I just re-read you message below and I'm not quite sure to understand because for me a tag is just a name for a revision number.
I wrote > > Notably <<Once a release branch stabilizes an initial "stable" release tag > > and pre-built package will be issued>> You answered > What this means is: > > 1. Receive fixes for OFBiz 4.0 branch (it's a progressing branch) ok > 2. Stabilize OFBiz 4.0 branch (time to freeze) ok > 3. Fork a new branch called OFBiz 4.0.stable (non-progressing branch) ok > > That's the meaning of "tag" in SVN. In fact, "tag" in CVS is about the same > (effected with > "branching"), just that CVS branching is not the same "cheap copies" as in > SVN. Do you mean that a tag is also a lazy copie like branches are ? > > > though as I'm not a svn branch expert I may not understand something here > (I > > seems easier to me to put a tag on a branch than to have to deal with multi > > sub-branches) ? > > It's the same. A "tag" is simply a branch that (by policy and > self-discipline) is never updated, > never changed. For me this is 2 differents things. A tag is a named revision number (in trunk or branches), a branch is a copy made at some point from the trunk (initially) or another branch (thereafter) > A "branch" is a branch that continues to grow. > > Think of a "tag" as a teeny tiny branch that serves as a "marker", a stub > that never grows. Then maybe it's only a vocabulary issue between us. You use tag for a frozen branch, which indeed makes sense in a way. BTW I think the time is coming to answer questions like in http://docs.ofbiz.org/display/OFBADMIN/Demo+and+Test+Setup+Guide?focusedCommentId=2604#comment-2604 What to you think, you developpers ? Jacques
