[Vim-latex-devel] CVS branching

[Srinath A. <sr...@fa...>]

I anticipate a fairly turbulent developement cycle over the next few
days/weeks. This will become more of an effect when we get more people
into the developement circle. Which means that things might get into
a broken state if we are not careful.

So here's what I propose:

Lets keep the main trunk of the CVS tree as a 'stable' candidate at all
times.  Whenever we want to make some major changes, split off a branch
and do developement on that branch. When that branch gets into a stable
state, merge it into the main trunk. I heard somewhere this kind of
thing being described as the "branch early" way of working. We still
ofcourse make small changes we are reasonably confident of working
straight away in the main branch.

How to do this is described extensively in the CVS manual and book:

<a href="http://www.cvshome.org/docs/manual/cvs.html">CVS manual</a>
<a href="http://cvsbook.red-bean.com/cvsbook.html">CVS book</a>

Have a look. Its also a very cool new thing to learn if you haven't
tried it before (I havent tried it before).

Benji, you might want to try this the next time you do some of those
radical changes you talked about :) I am going to do it now when I add
in Carl's changes.

Thanks,
Srinath