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Re: cvs update to branch with -f option
From: |
Larry Jones |
Subject: |
Re: cvs update to branch with -f option |
Date: |
Fri, 15 Mar 2002 12:08:43 -0500 (EST) |
address@hidden writes:
>
> Each branch has a few developers working on a handful of files. A
> developer working in a branch performs a checkout for the branch with the
> -f option, giving him an entire repository to work from consisting of the
> branched files, and the remainder of the repository from the main trunk.
> This developer then commits his changes to the branch for the other
> developers working in his branch. The other developers working in that
> branch then perform an update to the branch with the -f option, again
> giving them the files committed by other developers in that branch and the
> remainder of the repository from the main trunk.
>
> This method works well for us, except when the -f option is used, I would
> like to get the non-matching files from a tag, rather than from the main
> trunk (eg HEAD).
Branch the entire repository and stop using -f. Branches are cheap,
particularly if you never commit anything on them. And by branching
everything, you can branch wherever you want to get particular revisions
of certain files (e.g., at a particular tag).
-Larry Jones
I told her to expect you to deny everything. -- Calvin