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Ralf Steinhaeusser wrote: > Hello, > > is it possible to move the HEAD-Tag (is HEAD a tag?). > > What happened: A project evolved, and at a time a branch was created to > try some new technology. It turned out that this technology serves our > needs better, so I would like to make this brach the new > main-development path (-> HEAD) and the old head becomes a "dead end" > branch. > Something like 'cvs update -j branch -j HEAD' on the entire repository will work (this makes the HEAD revision equal to the branch revision). I believe there is a way at the RCS level to actually move HEAD but it's not recommended as there are a number of assumptions built into the CVS code that it stays on the trunk... not to mention the performance issue (working on the trunk is always faster as everything is defined relative to it). Tony