Re: Delete a branch

[Max Bowsher]

Sanjay Bhatia wrote:
> Hi
>
> I have a branch that I need to delete.

Please explain why you need to delete the branch.
Deleting branches is often highly undesirable.

> I followed the instructions in the
> manual (http://www.cvshome.org/docs/manual/cvs-1.11.6/cvs_4.html#IDX125)
> and adding a -B option did not help.  I tried 'cvs rtag -B -d branchname
> modulename' and I got a message saying that -B is not a valid option.

Sounds like your cvs client is too old.

NB: cvs rtag -d -B does NOT delete a branch. It only untags it. This is only
a good idea if no revisions have *ever* been commited on the branch. If any
have, the result of untagging is to leave anonymous branch revisions. By
some definitions, this could be called corruption of the repository.


Max.