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Yes, that's what I consider the normal way of creating branches. But somehow the client managed to create a branch "1" on top of the main trunk revisions, which sounded a little bit strange to me. -- Best regards, Thomas Singer Bo Berglund schrieb: > Creating a branch means the following: > > 1) Tag with the -b flag. The branch tag name is something like > Branch_MyTest or similar > 2) Update to the branch tag (cvs update -r Branch_MyTest) > 3) Edit some files in the sandbox > 4) Commit the edits > > It is not until step 4 that any of the files in the branch will change > revision number. Until then they will keep their old revisions. > After the commit there will be two new numbers added to the revision to > reflect the branch revision. The number of decimal points on any file is > always odd (1 for files on trunk, 3 for files committed on the first > level branch, 5 for files committed to a branch off of a branch etc): > > 1.11 > 1.11.1.2 > 1.11.1.6.1.2 > > etc > > HTH > > Best regards, > > Bo Berglund > > > -----Original Message----- > From: cvsnt-bounces at cvsnt.org [mailto:cvsnt-bounces at cvsnt.org] On Behalf > Of Thomas Singer > Sent: den 16 mars 2006 09:10 > Cc: cvsnt at cvsnt.org cvsnt downloads at march-hare.com @CVSNT on Twitter CVSNT on Facebook > Subject: Re: [cvsnt] Re: Branch "1" > > I just got the information from a client, that they created a branch > (parent > branch of the normal main-trunk revisions 1.1, 1.2, ...) with the > revision > "1" somehow and now wanted to get to know, whether this is as-designed > or by > abusing a possible bug in CVS(NT). > > Bo, I don't have the requested information. > > -- > Best regards, > Thomas Singer > > > Bo Berglund schrieb: >> On Wed, 15 Mar 2006 22:02:02 +0100, Thomas Singer <cvsnt at smartcvs.com> >> wrote: >> >>> Is it intended to create branches without periods like "1" (without > quotes)? >>> I always thought, that branches are only created with the "cvs (r)tag > -b" >>> command and hence need to have at least two periods. >> Could you expand your question a bit better? >> - What do you do? Exact cvs commands please. >> - What is the result? >> - What did you expect? >> - Which version of CVSNT are you using (include the build please)? >> - On what platform is the server running? >> - Platform and CVS version for the client? >> >> >> /Bo >> (Bo Berglund, developer in Sweden) >> _______________________________________________ > > _______________________________________________ > cvsnt mailing list > cvsnt at cvsnt.org cvsnt downloads at march-hare.com @CVSNT on Twitter CVSNT on Facebook > http://www.cvsnt.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/cvsnt https://www.march-hare.com/cvspro/en.asp#downcvs >