Re: Howto solve this in cvs ?

[Gerhard Ahuis]

On Thu, 11 Oct 2001, Greg A. Woods wrote:

> [ On Monday, October 1, 2001 at 09:12:24 (+0000), Gerhard Ahuis wrote: ]
> > Subject: Re: Howto solve this in cvs ?
> >
> > Greg A. Woods <address@hidden> wrote:
> > >
> > > For many of the same reasons it's literally impossible to ever have true
> > > multi-vendor support too -- all the benefits of "cvs import" are
> > > completely impossible to achieve with multiple vendor branches.  You can
> > > do multi-vendor tracking manually, but it's one hell of a lot more work
> > > (more work even than managing several variant branches in a locally
> > > initiated project)!
> >
> > There are not many files, so if you can give me some hints to let a second
> > vendor branch showup on a normal cvs branch and not on the main, I will be
> > very thankfull.
>
> Well, it's really quite straight forward.  You simply have to create
> normal branches for each vendor, and corresponding working directories
> for each, and then manually commit and tag each new release on each
> release.
>

It is already done now with 2 vendor branches.. Moving the branch tag to
the corresponding vendor version does the job.. I tested commiting of
files on the two branches and it all seems to work fine..

Cheers,

Gerhard.

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Gerhard Ahuis
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