[cvsnt] Renaming Branch Tags

David Hauck davidh at netacquire.com
Wed Mar 2 23:33:35 GMT 2005


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Hi,

I have a desire to rename a branch tag. I realize it's easy/straightforward
to rename fixed tags, but was wondering if the same thing was true for
branch tags. I suspect not. Is this something that CVSNT can do?

For example:
1. Develop on the trunk (v1.0).
2. Branch for speculative v1.1 effort (use V1_1_BRANCH as the branch tag).
3. Stop branch development, merge v1.1 into the trunk.
4. Continue v1.1 effort on the trunk.
5. Release v1.1 and branch (ideally using V1_1_BRANCH as the branch tag) for
ongoing v1.1 patch releases.

I'd like the v1.1 patch release to occur on a branch with tag V1_1_BRANCH.
Unfortunately the original (speculative) branch (step 2) used this name.
Ideally I'd like to rename the original branch something like
V1_1_BRANCH_OLD (or some such), prior to step 5 so that I might create the
new branch with the name V1_1_BRANCH.

If this isn't possible I'll just live with a different name for this case,
just wondered if there was perhaps a way for CVSNT to rename branch tags
generally.

Thanks in advance for any help/suggestions.

-David




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