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Chong Yidong wrote:

>> Has anyone given thought to the branch tag?  If we follow previous
>> conventions, we'd name the branch EMACS_23_BASE, but this is somewhat
>> misleading.

That was a mistake, not a convention. :)

> I think what we want is to tag the current HEAD as EMACS_23_BASE, and
> create the EMACS_23_1_RC branch from that tag.  Correct?

EMACS_23_1_BASE and EMACS_23_1_RC would be consistent with 21.

 admin/make-tarball.txt says:

  cvs rtag EMACS_`NUMBER'_BASE
  cvs rtag -b EMACS_`NUMBER'_RC -r EMACS_`NUMBER'_BASE

If this is wrong, it should be corrected.