Re: is it possible to close a development branch?

[Todd Denniston]

Sam Steingold wrote, On 10/16/2008 03:21 PM:
> Larry Jones wrote:
> > Sam Steingold writes:
> > > What do people do with a branch after it has been merged into the trunk?
> > Nothing.
>
> how about tagging the "foo" branch with "fooN" (Nth iteration) and then 
> tagging trunk with "cvs tag -B -F foo"?
Usually a bad idea to muck about with branch tags after they have become used.

> > > how do you close it, i.e., stop people from committing to it?
> > Tell them not to do that.  :-)
> people make mistakes.

cvs_acls[1] may help, and it was probably in your distribution, i.e., do a 
`locate cvs_acls`.
documentation for it is at [2], and perhaps could be found by `locate 
cvs_acls.html`.


[1] http://cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewvc/cvs/ccvs/contrib/cvs_acls.pl?view=log
http://cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewvc/*checkout*/cvs/ccvs/contrib/cvs_acls.pl?revision=1.6

[2] 
http://cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewvc/*checkout*/cvs/ccvs/contrib/cvs_acls.html?revision=1.3
http://cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewvc/cvs/ccvs/contrib/cvs_acls.html?view=log

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Todd Denniston
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