[Checkins] SVN: CMF/trunk/RELEASE.txt - add a note about handling SVN Externals when doing a release

[Jens Vagelpohl]

Log message for revision 66661:
  - add a note about handling SVN Externals when doing a release

Changed:
  U   CMF/trunk/RELEASE.txt

-=-
Modified: CMF/trunk/RELEASE.txt
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--- CMF/trunk/RELEASE.txt	2006-04-08 10:37:59 UTC (rev 66660)
+++ CMF/trunk/RELEASE.txt	2006-04-08 10:39:29 UTC (rev 66661)
@@ -55,7 +55,13 @@
       - Create the Subversion tag by svn copying the head of the release
         branch to the tag in the tags repository directory.
 
+      - Even though checking into a tag is an insidious thing to do, it is
+        OK for changing SVN Externals definitions. Specifically, a CMF
+        release tag should not contain SVN Externals pointing to branches.
+        If needed, a tag on the external package should be cut and then
+        the external definition adjusted to point to the tag.
 
+
   **Creating and publishing the release**
 
     Now that the Subversion repository is prepared the files need to be put onto