Thomas Wouters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sat, Feb 11, 2006 at 09:10:41AM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> Dave> It isn't completely clear which branch or tag to get, and Google >> Dave> turned up no obvious documentation. > >> On subversion, you want releaseXY-maint for the various X.Y releases. For >> 2.4.2, release24-maint is what you want, though it may have a few bug fixes >> since 2.4.2 was released. With CVS I used to use "cvs log README" to see >> what all the tags and branches were. I don't know what the equivalent svn >> command is. > > The 'cvs log' trick only works if the file you log is actually part of the > branch. Not an issue with Python or any other project that always branches > sanely, fortunately, but there's always wackos out there ;) > You get the list of branches in SVN with: > > svn ls http://svn.python.org/projects/python/branches/ > > And similarly, tags with: > > svn ls http://svn.python.org/projects/python/tags
Yes, that's easy enough, but being sure of the meaning of any given tag or branch name is less easy. -- Dave Abrahams Boost Consulting www.boost-consulting.com _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
