Re: Deleting or Renaming a Branch

[Jake Colman]

>>>>> "AB" == Arthur Barrett <address@hidden> writes:

   AB> Jake,
   >> > Don't you just want to move the old branch to the new HEAD?
   >> > cvs tag -F -b MY_NEW_BRANCH
   >> 
   >> Actually, I just want to pretend as if I never cut the branch in the
   >> first place.  We 
   AB> .
   AB> .
   AB> .

   >> What I'd like to do is totally blow away PROJECTX as if it never
   >> existed.  Then I would like to cut a new PROJECTX from HEAD so
   >> that the project will be based on the latest code from HEAD.

   AB> Yes - that is 'move the old branch to the new HEAD'.

   AB> Deleting a branch requires use of the 'cvs admin' commands, and
   AB> as a general rule of thumb if you ever have cause to type 'cvs
   AB> admin' then it's probably time to go home and come back with a
   AB> better idea.  In 15 years of administering CVS and CVSNT
   AB> repositories I've never had to use 'cvs admin'.

   AB> Now moving branch tags is not something to be done lightly, but
   AB> since you already know that you've nto used PROJECTX branch then
   AB> it should be OK (of course having backups of your repository is
   AB> always a requirement for any administrative command).

   AB> So from within a sandbox with HEAD checked out: 

   AB>    cvs tag -F -b PROJECTX

   AB> What this command does is literally move the PROJEXTX branch to
   AB> the HEAD revisions, or to put it another way: when you created
   AB> the PROJEXTX branch it used the latest revision numbers of each
   AB> file, you now want it to do the same thing again - any files that
   AB> have 'newer' revisions you want to move the branch to begin at
   AB> the newer revision.

So after I do this command, I would then go to any existing PROJECTX
sandboxes and do a 'cvs update' command?  I use the HEAD sandbox to move
the branch tag but then refresh any existing PROJECTX sandboxes so that
it gets the correct revisions?

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