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Re: mainline vs 6.1 tree
- From: mec dot gnu at mindspring dot com (Michael Elizabeth Chastain)
- To: gdb at sources dot redhat dot com, manjo at austin dot ibm dot com
- Date: Thu, 15 Apr 2004 14:03:55 -0400 (EDT)
- Subject: Re: mainline vs 6.1 tree
Manjo> I was wondering if the patches/fixes done to mainline tree ever
Manjo> make it into the 6.1 tree? How does it work?
A developer who commits a patch to cvs HEAD might commit it to cvs
gdb_6_1-branch at the same time. Many patches get applied this way
before the release of 6.1. After the release of 6.1, very few patches
get applied this way.
Or, a developer might pick up patches that are already in cvs HEAD
and apply them by hand to gdb_6_1-banch. This is called 'backporting'.
You can look at the ChangeLog files in gdb_6_1-branch
to see how much activity there has been.
Michael C