On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 8:27 PM, Florian Pflug <f...@phlo.org> wrote: > Hi > > I just tried to checkout REL9_0_BETA1 from my local clone of the GIT > repository at git.postgresql.org and discovered that none of the tags from > CVS seem to exist in there. For alpha1 to alpha1 each tag is accompanied by a > corresponding brach, and those *do* exist on the GIT mirror. For beta1, > however, no branch seems to exist, and hence there is no trace of it on the > GIT mirror. > > Why is there a branch plus a tag for alphas, but only a tag for betas? I'd > have assumed that both would just be tags, but obviously I'm missing > something there...
I think we branched the alphas so we could version-stamp them while keeping HEAD as "9.0devel". But when we switch to beta, we don't have a devel tree anymore, it's just beta and backbranches. -- Magnus Hagander Me: http://www.hagander.net/ Work: http://www.redpill-linpro.com/ -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
