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 5.1 What branches are good for
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 Suppose that release 1.0 of tc has been made.  You are continuing to
 develop tc, planning to create release 1.1 in a couple of months.
 After a while your customers start to complain about a fatal bug.  You
 check out release 1.0 ( Tags) and find the bug (which turns out
 to have a trivial fix).  However, the current revision of the sources
 are in a state of flux and are not expected to be stable for at least
 another month.  There is no way to make a bug fix release based on the
 newest sources.
 
    The thing to do in a situation like this is to create a "branch" on
 the revision trees for all the files that make up release 1.0 of tc.
 You can then make modifications to the branch without disturbing the
 main trunk.  When the modifications are finished you can elect to
 either incorporate them on the main trunk, or leave them on the branch.
 
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