FreeBSD sources from svn repos

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On Mon, 25 Jan 2010 15:51:26 +0000
Masoom Shaikh <masoom.shaikh at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi List,
> 
> I am confused about FreeBSD versions maintained in svn repos
> 
> 1. http://svn.freebsd.org/base/releng/8.0/
> 2. http://svn.freebsd.org/base/release/8.0.0/
> 3. http://svn.freebsd.org/base/stable/8/
> 
> (2) is easy, most probably it means stable

Rather than the one that has "stable" in the url?

> how about (1) and (2)

The obvious interpretation is that 3 is stable, 2 is the release, and
1 is the RELENG_8_0 security branch.