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I agree with you Daniel the -b -B options don't give you the same functionality that a change branch does. Matt S. Daniel Lapolla wrote: > Arthur Barrett wrote: > >> Daniel, >> >> Tony mentioned very early in this thread that perhaps the change sets in >> CVSNT would be a better way to solve the problem than all these banches. >> >> >> See the -B and -b switches on cvs "edit", "unedit", "update" and >> "commit" commands. >> >> People only used to use branches and tags for "CR"'s because the older >> CVS did not have native support for change sets. > > > Arthur > > I disagree with you. > > Change set grouping is one of the benefits. Others are, for example code > isolation & promotion, ability to select the what CRs you want to > integrate, without depending on a developer's working copy, ability for > the developers to have save points for the CR being developed, among > several others... > > I'm sure that -B/-b options don't give you all the benefits you get with > a CR branch. > > Regards > > Daniel