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Siegfried Heintze wrote: > Is it necessary to checkout a second sandbox for the trunk (as recommended > in the OReilly book) so I can add revisions to both the branch and the trunk > without merging them or replacing one with the other? > > Apparently, if you want to merge or override changes immediately, one can > use the update command. It seems that both the -j and the -r for the update > command want to merge changes all the time. > > I want to keep the trunk and branches separate for a few revisions before I > merge them. Is it possible to do this with a single sandbox? I suspect not. It depends on how you want to work with them. Both at the same time? One at a time? Personally I have one sandbox for my "current prod" (e.g. stable, might get small patches) and one for "HEAD" (development). When I get my dev stabilized and am ready to post it to production, I can delete my old "prod" sandbox. When I have to fix something in production, I fix it on the prod branch and merge the change into DEV once it's complete and tested (typically about the same time it hits production). Working from a single sandbox works too. It's especially useful when you have a large number of files that are the same or very large sandbox that you don't want 2 copies of. CVS is very flexible... use it however it works for you... -- Glen Starrett