Re: How can I administratively "freeze" a branch?

[Jim Hyslop]

address@hidden wrote:
> >  Why not just "cvs rm" all the files from it, so they no 
> > longer exist at the head of the branch?  People would have to 
> > accidentally checkout old revisions before they could 
> > accidentally commit to it; that's pretty improbable I think.
>
>
>   The problem is that files from old branch still exist in
> HEAD (in fact, what we did was to commit the branched files
> to HEAD).
I don't understand your objection.

'cvs remove' on a branch will declare the tip of the branch dead, 
thereby preventing anyone from checking anything into the branch. It's 
exactly what you want to do.

--
Jim