On Tuesday 17 September 2002 10:38 am, Alex Perry wrote:
> > > The stable tree is for all intents and purposes the last released
> > > version. For SimGear and FlightGear you have to maintain 2 trees if
> > > you want access to the stable or dev versions. The basepackage CVS you
> > > can access either, but not concurrently.
> >
> > ..it is also possible to use an "how-to on using cvs to minimize the
> > download requirements", as a bait to fish people into using cvs and
> > then into development.  ;-)
>
> I should point out that a single machine can have an unlimited number of
> checkouts of the same tree.  So, if you check out the base package as
> stable, then copy the whole tree to another directory, you can change
> the tag on the copy so it updates itself as the unstable tree.
> In this way, you get both trees for less than two amounts of download.
>

Good point


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