[Python-Dev] release22-maint branch strangeness

[Guido van Rossum]

> I've noticed some strangeness with the release22-maint branch.  I made
> a documentation change there this morning, and CVS gave the change a
> really weird version number when I checked it in.  Looking further, it
> looks like the previous checkin for that file (Doc/tut/tut.tex) has
> some strangeness as well.  The branching tags are also pretty
> whacked.  This is an excerpt of the "cvs log" for the file:
> 
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> RCS file: /cvsroot/python/python/dist/src/Doc/tut/tut.tex,v
> Working file: tut.tex
> head: 1.158
> branch:
> locks: strict
> access list:
> symbolic names:
>         r212: 1.133.2.5
>         r212c1: 1.133.2.5
>         release22-mac: 1.156.4.1
>         release22-maint: 1.156.4.1.0.2
>         release22: 1.156.4.1
>         release22-branch: 1.156.0.4
>         release22-fork: 1.156
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> Note the revision number for release22-maint; it looks like it's a
> branch created from a branch created from a tag on a branch(!).  All
> the while, I've been thinking that branches, once created, are
> independent (identified by the third component of the revision number
> for any given file).  I still think they're supposed to be.

I think you must've used a tag to bvase your branch, and that tag was
already on a branch.

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)