[cvsnt] Re: Update to branchpoint (was: Re: virtual branches?)

Bo Berglund bo.berglund at telia.com
Thu Oct 20 06:39:04 BST 2005


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On Wed, 19 Oct 2005 22:14:41 -0200, Flávio Etrusco
<flavio.etrusco at gmail.com> wrote:

>> How about this... Since there is no easy way to get the branch point later
>> on, most people probably will tag the parent branch (HEAD in your case) at
>> the branch point.
>
>BTW,  why isn't there a command to do update to a branchpoint?
>

This was discussed before, but there are a number of problems that
make it not so obvious what to do for cvs.
So the safe way is actually to tag the state you branch oiff from,
update to that tag and then branch. And put the tag name you start
from as a part of the branch tag name so you can easily deduce it
later...


/Bo
(Bo Berglund, developer in Sweden)



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