On Jun 1, 2007, at 1:29 AM, Ulrich Eckhardt wrote:
On Wednesday 30 May 2007 22:29:05 Rene Rivera wrote:
[boost-svn] boost stable (full boost tree here) devel (full boost tree here) branches my_branch (full boost tree here) cmake_a (full boost tree here) cmake_b (full boost tree here) tags boost_1_33_1 (full boost tree here) boost_1_34_0 (full boost tree here)
boost/stable would contain a copy of boost/tags/boost_1_34_0 currently and both would be equal to what you get when you download the tarballs/ zips, right?
At the moment that the release manager builds the tarball, they will be identical. However, "stable" will evolve during releases, as we move well-tested code from devel over to stable.
Further, if I want to finally finish the port to Windows CE, admins could create a branch and assign commit-rights to me (I don't have them otherwise) so I don't have to use my company's private repository and so that everybody can see and contribute. When the code has been thoroughly tested, the changes can be merged into boost/devel. Is that one of the goals?
Yes, that's one of the reasons to use branches. - Doug