On Wed, Oct 24, 2018 at 8:52 PM Bo Berglund via Lazarus <lazarus@lists.lazarus-ide.org> wrote: > I have always been using the tags list: > https://svn.freepascal.org/svn/lazarus/tags/ > and here are only immutable snapsots where I select the latest not set as RCx. > Is that a bad practice?
It is not bad but I think using the HEAD of a fixes branch is even better. Only bug fixes are merged there. New features stay in trunk. Every bug fix makes things better. > Do you mean that say fixes_1_8 contains these tags: > lazarus_1_8_0 > lazarus_1_8_2 > lazarus_1_8_4 > and the top of the fixes_1_8 branch has the very latest released fixes? Yes, except that fixes_1_8 branch is not updated any more as fixes_2_0 took its place. Here you can see what is already merged for the coming 2.0.0RC2: http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/Lazarus_2.0_fixes_branch Thus the HEAD of fixes_2_0 is already much better than RC1. Most, maybe all, of those bugs exist in Lazarus 1.8.4, thus fixes_2_0 is way better. > If I already now have 1_8_4 as a tag and would like to switch it over > to the fixes branch, how is that done? I gave you instructions earlier in this thread. This is the fixes_2_0 branch: https://svn.freepascal.org/svn/lazarus/branches/fixes_2_0/ It may be easiest to do a new "svn checkout" for it and delete the old one. Juha -- _______________________________________________ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus-ide.org https://lists.lazarus-ide.org/listinfo/lazarus
