Re: Mass moving files onto branch

[Stephen Rasku]

Derek Price wrote:
>
>Stephen Rasku wrote:
>
>> One of our developers wants to mass move a bunch of files from the
>> HEAD to a branch.  There are binary files and text files.  Some are
>> the same name and some have been renamed.  He has proposed to 
simply
>> "cvs rm" the entire contents of the module and then "cvs add" the
>> contents of the HEAD.
>>
>> Does anyone see anything wrong with that?  Is there a better way?
>
>Not really, if you don't mind the extra log message (for each deleted
>revision), but is there a reason you're not just creating a new 
branch
>from HEAD?
>

The reason is that the branch is contains the history for the current 
production release of the software.  We need to maintain this branch 
until we release the current version.

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