Thanks for the tip, I'll certainly look into these titles.
-A
On Jan 8, 2007, at 4:02 PM, Arthur Barrett wrote: Andrew, The short answer is that for every "release" it is typical to create a branch, and for each version of a release sent out you normally create a tag. Both are managed using the "cvs tag" command. I strongly suggest you get a copy of a book about CVS and read up about less technical topics and more about "how to" stuff. Implementing a CM system is more than simply checking in and checking out as you have discovered. "Essential CVS" is available through Amazon and is a great book. "All About CVS" is an electronic book that I helped author and focuses a little more on where CVS fits into CM and covers windows clients like TortoiseCVS and WinCVS as well as unix command line client and is available through the march-hare.com web site. Regards, Arthur Barrett I'm familiar with basic CVS functioning, but when it comes to managing 'releases', etc., I'm still a little hazy.
Here's my situation: I have a module which represents a project I'm working on containing a set of files. I have completely rewritten the 'project', however, so the project as it 'used to be' (ie: the old files) are no longer necessary and I'd like to replace them with the set of new files (the project 'as it is').. but I obviously want to keep the old files in history. I'm not really sure how best to go about this. Should I 'cvs remove' the older files and then add the new files under a new release tag? Basically I'd like to be able to go back at any time and retrieve either the older version of the project or the current one according to a release tag (say, beta 1 or beta 2).
Can anyone share with me the what the 'conventional' way of doing this would be?
Thanks!, Andrew
-- Andrew Stewart Research Assistant, Genomics Team Navy Medical Research Center (NMRC) Biological Defense Research Directorate (BDRD) BDRD Annex 12300 Washington Avenue, 2nd Floor Rockville, MD 20852
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-- Andrew Stewart Research Assistant, Genomics Team Navy Medical Research Center (NMRC) Biological Defense Research Directorate (BDRD) BDRD Annex 12300 Washington Avenue, 2nd Floor Rockville, MD 20852
phone: 301-231-6700 Ext 270
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