Re: Branches

[Jim Hyslop]

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CARTER-HITCHIN, David, GBM wrote:
> CVS will keep track of revisions, it won't help you write code!
> branch your code then in the trunk finish your dev mainline work, in the
> branch back out the new changes that you don't want in that release.  You
> can do this with rtag:
> 
> cvs rtag -r <OLD VERSION OF FILE> -F <BRANCH_TAG_NAME> <module/filename>

If there is a particular release point that the management wants
tweaked, then it is much simpler to branch from that release point. That
way, you won't have to back out any changes.

[Please trim excess quotes in the future]

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Jim Hyslop
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