Re: using head revision in branch after add on branch

[Eivind Eklund]

On Fri, Feb 01, 2002 at 02:16:20PM +0100, C. Wienberg wrote:
> If we kill the ,v-File from the repository, andd add the file on the
> head branch, we will loose the file's history. Is there any better way?
> All we want is to get the symbolic name <branchname> point to the same
> version as head!

The following will probably work, but is DIRTY, and I am not certain what side
effects it may have on other apps trying to interact with the CVS repository:
cvs admin -N<branchname>:1 <filename>

I recommend taking a backup of the CVS repository before doing this.

Eivind.