RE: importing vendor branches

[Jerry Nairn]

>From: Fergus Henderson [mailto:address@hidden
>Sent: Thursday, May 03, 2001 1:28 PM
>On 03-May-2001, Nils Jakobson <address@hidden> wrote:
>> My solution is never work with unconditional checkouts from very
>> beginning, I simply put branch "1" in the checkout options and it
>> stays on the main line. 

>Just to clarify: are you suggesting the use of `cvs checkout 
>-r1 <modules...>'
>instead of `cvs checkout <modules...>', and likewise `cvs update -r1'
>instead of `cvs update'?

Once you've done one checkout or update, it should be unnecessary to use
'-r1' again unless you want to check out a different sticky revision,
branch, or tag. 'cvs update -r1' is unnecessary.

>Are there any hidden problems that might arise from the use of this
>work-around?

If it works, and I've never tried it, it should keep working unless you've
used 'cvs admin' to force some revisions to be greater than 1.x, something
everyone says to never do anyway.
Jerry