[support] CVS Update to my Drupal install didn't work

[Jason Flatt]

On Saturday, February 2 2008 8:33:34 pm Shai Gluskin wrote:
> Jason and others,
>
> Thank you so much,
>
> I've followed my plan, reinforced by your "yes" comments.
>
> The only thing that surprised me a bit is that what was installed was
> 5.8-dev, not 5.7.
>
> There isn't anything unstable or experimental about 5.8-dev, is there?

The tags don't work that way for core. Any development would be done in 
5.x-dev. Also, there is no development being done in Drupal 5.x, only 
security patches and occasional bug fixes. Here's the list of core branches 
and tags:

http://drupal.org/node/93997

DRUPAL-5-8 will only exist when they tag 5.x-dev with whatever changes have 
been applied to DRUPAL-5.

> My goals are to:
> 1. use CVS for more convenient updating
> 2. use the latest stable version Drupal that has the modules I need.

What you have with DRUPAL-5 is the latest there is to have.

> I hope these goals are not incompatible.
>
> thanks again for the reassurance,
>
> Shai

If you want to get a handle on CVS with Drupal, start here and read every 
relevant thing under it:
http://drupal.org/handbook/cvs

Also, anything on the dev mail list from dww for the last year and a half or 
so about CVS or project management.

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