[ANNOUNCEMENT] Cygwin setup.exe bugfix release 2.510.2.2

[Dave Korn]

----Original Message----
>From: Max Bowsher
>Sent: 08 September 2005 18:53

> I agree with all of the above motivation, but since a branch with no
> commits is literally just a special kind of tag, why not create the
> branch in the first place?
> If it then turns out we need it, we use it. If not, no effort is wasted,
> we just continue on  trunk, and create a new release branches at each
> release from trunk.

  But we would be wasting magic revision numbers!  ;)

  Seriously though, since the (normal tag for branchpoint) + (branch tag
based on that normal tag) paradigm is so widespread, I vote for making it
just an ordinary tag that we can base a branch on only if we ever need to.
Having lots of unused branches doesn't cost much resource-wise, I admit, but
it is cluttered and confusing when you start going into the cvs log/history
and find loads and loads of branch tags left, right and centre.  And it
causes the drop-down box on the cvsweb interface to fill up with loads of
entries!

    cheers,
      DaveK
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