Thanks Robert, Your reply helps a lot. Just right after sending post, I found the way to list all branches in the CVS server.
Best, M Z On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 10:43 PM, Robert Haas <robertmh...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 10:35 PM, M Z <jm80...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Final, I tried: > > > > $ cvs -z3 -d > > :pserver:anoncvs:passw...@anoncvs.postgresql.org:/projects/cvsroot co -r > > REL8_3_STABLE -P pgsql > > > > Checked file configure.in. Around line 20, there is line: > > AC_INIT([PostgreSQL], [8.3.9], [pgsql-b...@postgresql.org]) > > > > Not sure that indicates version 8.3.9? > > > > But still, is there a testing/developing version for 8.3? > > REL8_3_STABLE is the head of the stable branch for 8.3. It says 8.3.9 > right now because 8.3.9 is the last release that was stamped off that > branch, but what you checked out actually has any changes backpatched > since then on it as well. > > > I remember Alvaro > > made a patch to contrib/xml2/xpath.c. What is that version? and How can > get > > this version? > > That patch hasn't been applied yet. You have to download it from his > message and apply it to your local copy using the "patch" program. > > > Is there a way I can list all branches / versions in CVS server? > > Andrew already answered that question in his previous message: use cvs > log on a file that's been around for a long time, like configure.in. > > It sounds like you need to find some documentation for CVS and read > it, and/or find a CVS help mailing list and post to it. > > ...Robert >
