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   7 <H1>CVS Branch Information</H1>
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   9 <p>
  10 At any given time, there may be several active branches in Mesa's
  11 CVS repository.
  12
  13 Generally, the CVS trunk contains the latest development (unstable)
  14 code while a CVS branch has the latest stable code.
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  17 <p>
  18 Currently (Oct 2004), the trunk is the Mesa 6.3 development code
  19 while the mesa_6_2_branch branch has the stable Mesa 6.2.x code.
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  23 Mesa releases use an even/odd numbering scheme to represent stable/development
  24 releases.
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  26 For example, Mesa 6.2 (0 is considered even) is a stable release while
  27 Mesa 6.3 is a development release.
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  30 <p>
  31 To checkout a specific CVS branch pass <code>-r</code> and
  32 the branch tag after your CVS command.
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  34 For example <code>cvs checkout -r mesa_6_2_branch Mesa</code> will
  35 checkout the 6.2 branch and <code>cvs update -r
  36 mesa_6_2_branch</code> will convert your current CVS tree to the 6.2
  37 branch.
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  39 Consult <a href="http://www.durak.org/cvswebsites/doc/cvs_5.php3#SEC54"
  40 target="_parent">http://www.durak.org/cvswebsites/doc/cvs_5.php3#SEC54</a>
  41 for more on branching in CVS.
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  44 <p>
  45 To see a list of all the CVS branches run <code>cvs log README</code> (or any
  46 other file) and look for the section labeled <code>symbolic names</code>.
  47 You'll see something like this:
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  50 <pre>  symbolic names:
  51         mesa_4_0: 1.3
  52         mesa_4_0_branch: 1.3.0.6
  53         mesa_3_5: 1.3
  54         mesa_3_4_2: 1.3
  55         mesa_3_4_1: 1.3
  56         mesa_3_4: 1.3
  57         mesa_3_4_branch: 1.3.0.4
  58         mesa_3_3: 1.3
  59         mesa_3_2_1: 1.1.1.1
  60         mesa_3_3_texture_env_combine2: 1.3.0.2
  61         mesa_3_2: 1.1.1.1
  62         mesa_3_2_beta_1: 1.1.1.1
  63         mesa_3_1: 1.1.1.1
  64         mesa_3_2_dev: 1.1.1.1.0.2
  65         mesa_3_1_beta_3: 1.1.1.1
  66         start: 1.1.1.1
  67         mesa: 1.1.1
  68 </pre>
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  71 Most will be obsolete branches.  Generally, the newer branches are at
  72 the top.  Ask on the mesa3d-dev mailing list to learn which branches
  73 are active.
  74 </p>
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