Re: Checkout the sources for the release branch

[Lennart Borgman (gmail)]

David Kastrup wrote:
> "Lennart Borgman (gmail)" <address@hidden> writes:
>
> > Jason Rumney wrote:
> > > Lennart Borgman (gmail) wrote:
> > > > > People who use CVS can be expected to acquire a minimum of knowledge
> > > > > for that.
> > > > And how should they get that?
> > > By reading the manual which is linked from the same page on Savannah!
> > I meant of course how they should know that EMACS_22_BASE exists. And
> > that this is what will be released.
>
> It isn't what will be released.  What will be released is what is
> _tagged_ as the release, and once it is tagged, there will be a
> tarball for it.  If we are in the process of being close to a release,
> we also have pretest tarballs.

Thanks, but I am not sure I understand the difference.

> People who are dealing on a regular base with Emacs' CVS are also told
> to read emacs-devel to know what they are dealing with.
>
> And sorry, if you have not noticed by now by the ongoing discussions
> on emacs-devel that there is an EMACS_22_BASE branch that is going to
> be used for releasing Emacs 22.1, then no amount of additional
> handholding is going to help you.

Are you sure you are not writing about your problem, not mine? I found 
nothing interesting from the point of the information matter I asked 
about here.