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I have 4.6.5. Is this the latest 4.6.

If i use CVS is their simply a 4.6 branch (i.e. 4.6 HEAD) or do i need to go to a 4.6.5 branch and get latest (which i guess could be newer than released 4.6.5? or is their a re yet to be release 4.6.6?

i read up on this in CVS guide here but doens't seem to mention this

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There's an example in http://drupal.org/node/320 :

cvs -z9 -d:pserver:anonymous:anonymous@cvs.drupal.org:/cvs/drupal co -r DRUPAL-4-6 drupal

That would retrieve the newest copy of 4.6 from CVS.

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liquidcms commented

thanks kindly.. thats what i figured and was just about to try it...

just wasn't sure that if i downloaded 4.6 from cvs that that would necessarily be "4.6 HEAD"...

Peter Lindstrom
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Fusion_Sushi commented

How do thoes of us not using the CVS.exe get it?

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liquidcms commented

i think there is a project page for 4.6 and there that have cvs download.. which is tar'ed cvs from the night before... but not sure there is such a thing for 4.6 or not.. most modules i think have this

Peter Lindstrom
LiquidCMS - Content Solution Experts

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The CVS version is for 'HEAD' which is the current in-development version (the version that will eventually become Drupal 4.7 at the moment). Same goes for modules' CVS versions, although there it's more hit-or-miss as to whether they have been updated fully to Drupal's HEAD or not.

I'm not aware of a way to grab DRUPAL-4-6 revision of CVS without actually using a CVS program. CVS is really worth figuring out though if you're interested in open source projects; nearly all projects use this (or something similar like Subversion) to store their in-development stuff, and in some cases it is the only way to receive versions of programs in between releases.

There are several 'user friendly' CVS clients out there, like TortoiseCVS for Windows, if you're command-line phobic. There's a page in the handbook at http://drupal.org/node/22293 on the topic but I'm not sure how up-to-date it is.

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venkat-rk commented

The colon at the end of the node/320 url makes the home page come up, instead of the page linked.

Useful tip by the way. Thanks.

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So that problem shouldn't happen anymore. :)