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Tony Hoyle wrote: > Daniel Lapolla wrote: > >> I agree, but could you imagine the mess in the rcs files when you >> create 10-20 repository/tree-wide branches per day? It would render >> any graphing tool useless. And also, it would take a little time to >> tag 15.000+ files for each change request. > > > That's only around 7000 tags a year.. not really that much. Graphing > tools should be able to filter out empty branches anyway. Well, some times the branch is empty but you want to see it because you are working on it... (AFAIK, Wincvs graphing tool cannot do this) > > Or use bugids and forget about the tags. > >> I added a new file directly into a branch, and now I want to retrieve >> it. It does not exist in the trunk, but it is there in the branch. >> When I try to update it to the branch, it disappears. > > > I do this all the time (especially with the 2.6.x merging process I'm > doing at the moment) and have no problems. > > Can you describe exactly what you're doing? Imagine that developer 1, working on CR 12345 creates the branch br_cr_12345 on files A and B, and adds C directly in that branch. CR 12345 goes through testing and the tests fail. But Developer 1 is sick and Developer 2 must carry on the work on cr 12345. So the first step in order to developer 2 make the necessary corrections in CR 12345 is to retrieve br_cr_12345. The procedure I stated in my initial post is what Developer 2 used to do to retrieve the cr. Daniel > > Tony