Tagging in the HSX releases...

Erik Trimble Erik.Trimble at Sun.COM
Tue Dec 1 14:27:46 PST 2009


After some internal discussion, and taking into account the 
already-voiced opinions here in favor of it,  I'll be adding Mercurial 
Tags to the repositories to indicate the Hotspot Build number.

I plan to go all the way back to the release of Hotspot 16 and tag as 
appropriate. All future HSX work will include the proper tags.

The tags will be of the form:

hsX-bY

where X is the Hotspot major version number OR the major.minor version 
number (e.g.  16  or  16.1 )
Y is the build number, two digits in length, with a leading 0 if 
necessary.  (e.g.  09  or 12 )

Thus, tags will look like:

hs16-b13

or

hs16.1-b02


This change should make determination of what is included in a HSX build 
simpler, and cloning much easier.

Please refer to the Mercurial documentation for how to use Tags during 
cloning or other operations.

-- 
Erik Trimble
Java System Support
Mailstop:  usca22-123
Phone:  x17195
Santa Clara, CA



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