[cvsnt] How to *move* a trunk section to a branch?

Boyd Meier bmeier at acornsys.com
Fri Sep 5 16:26:25 BST 2003


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My best recommendation would be to branch the trunk at the HEAD for the
developer, and then revert the changes on the trunk to the last known
good revision.  I've had to do that for development here before, and
though the branch is at an odd point in the source commits, what really
matters is maintaining the history of our tags and release.  You may
have other reasons for trying to move the whole tree, but it's difficult
for me to justify the extra work involved.

	Boyd

-----Original Message-----
From: cvsnt-bounces at cvsnt.org [mailto:cvsnt-bounces at cvsnt.org] On Behalf
Of Bo Berglund
Sent: Friday, September 05, 2003 2:51 AM
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Subject: [cvsnt] How to *move* a trunk section to a branch?


Hi all,
I have a small problem that I don't know how to handle in the best
way... There is a module containing a component that we use all the time
in many different products. It reached a "stable" level and all was
fine. Then entered one developer with special needs and he modified the
component, making it multithreaded and with all kinds of bells and
whistles. In the process he managed to introduce stuff that made it
misbehave *sometimes* in our regular use. Of course he did all of this
on TRUNK to make it even worse, that is how it eventually was
discovered.

Now, what I want to do is create a branch where he started his
"improvements" and move all of the following edits out on this branch so
that the HEAD will again point to the stable version we had before his
changes. I know I can promote the stable version to become HEAD again
but at a different revision level, but this is not what I want, because
the changes he made was for a reason and should be kept for him.

But I want everyone that checks out the component to get tghe stable
version unless they specify the threaded version.

So is there a way to move file revisions on TRUNK out to a branch by
some administrative commands or such?

TIA

Bo
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