exact difference between RELENG_4, RELENG_4_5 . . . RELENG_4_8

[Matthew D. Fuller]

On Fri, Jun 13, 2003 at 07:16:09PM -0700 I heard the voice of
Richard Schilling, and lo! it spake thus:
> Read the documentation on the meaning of the various 4.X tags, and am 
> not sure what is meant by this:
> 
> "The release branch for FreeBSD-4.6 and FreeBSD-4.6.2, used only for 
> security advisories and other seriously critical fixes."
> 
> Similar descriptions are used for the other RELENG_4_X tags.
> 
> If I specify RELENG_4 will cvsup also include RELENG_4_3 to RELENG_4_8?

ASCII art!

-------------------------------------------------- RELENG_4 (4.x-STABLE)
    \                               \
     \                               \
      \                               \----------|--- RELENG_4_8
       \                                         |
        \                                     4.8-RELEASE
         \------|------------- RELENG_4_7
                |
           4.7-RELEASE


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