Re: [cvsgui] cvs branching problem

[Steve Greenland]

On Fri, Dec 14, 2001 at 05:12:14PM +1000, Sasha Case wrote:
> At 05:08 PM 14/12/2001 +1000, Sasha Case wrote:
> >At this point if we attempt to do any operations on the branched files, it
> >is as though they are not in repository.
> 
> I've just done some more playing.. If I select all the files in WinCVS, 
> then do an update, all the files except binaries are deleted with "... is 
> no longer in the repository", however if I select the directory and do an 
> update, all the files that were just deleted return.
> 
> What is going on??

You're branching individual files, rather than the whole directory. So
now you have a directory that has some files in the branch, and some
on the trunk. When you do the "update" in the existing sandbox, you
greatly confuse CVS. When you do the checkout, you only get the files
that are actually tagged with the branch tag, and thus the other files
are "removed".

Basically, the answer is "don't do that". Branch the whole module.      
Modify the files you need to modify, and don't worry about the others.

Steve