Re: Checkout the sources for the release branch

[Lennart Borgman (gmail)]

Alan Mackenzie wrote:
> Hi, Eli!
>
> On Thu, May 24, 2007 at 04:18:25PM +0300, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > > Date: Thu, 24 May 2007 13:16:11 +0200
> > > From: "Lennart Borgman (gmail)" <address@hidden>
> > > CC:  address@hidden,  address@hidden
>
> > > > > I meant of course how they should know that EMACS_22_BASE exists.
>
> > > > What's wrong with "cvs log"?
>
> > > Just that I have no idea where to find the information.
>
> > You don't need to find it, it will look right at you: "cvs log" lists
> > all the branches that are known to the repository.  And a name such as
> > EMACS_22_BASE is sufficiently self-explanatory.

Thanks Eli, I see what you mean now, but I believe it could be made much 
easier for those of us that do not know very much about CVS.

> I think Lennart meant that he didn't know where to find out that the
> command "cvs log" existed, and was relevant; that he hadn't guessed that
> there was such a command.

That is true.

> Lennart: you must have CVS installed on your machine, somehow; it will
> contain a file cvs.texi (or similar), which you can compile into an info
> file and then read on Emacs.  There are MS-Windows versions of gunzip,
> tar and makeinfo floating around on the Internet.  Do this - it's well
> worth the bother.

Thanks Alan. It looks a bit different on MS-Windows. But I can get the 
documentation on the net.