Tagging in the HSX releases...

[Andrew John Hughes]

2009/12/1 Erik Trimble <Erik.Trimble at sun.com>:
> 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
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>
>

This is good to hear.  I was planning to add such tags when we
imported hs16 into OpenJDK6, so this saves me the job! :-)
-- 
Andrew :-)

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