Re: Is it possible to change a branch tag name?

[Dale Miller]

Donald,

I believe your answer will force a new branch off the old branch
instead of giving another branch name pointing to the same
old branch point.

Dale Miller

Donald Sharp wrote:

> cvs rtag -r <old branch name> -b <new branch name> module.
>
> I then would do a merge into the new branch from the old branch.
>
> Or alternately.  Create a new branch from the latest of the old
> branch and just start using the new branch name.
>
> donald
> On Wed, Dec 06, 2000 at 10:42:54AM -0500, John R. Dunning wrote:
> > One of the folks in my group has decided he wants to change the name
> > of a branch tag, after having done some amount of changing of files on
> > that branch.  I'd never heard of a way to do that, and a scan of the
> > docs doesn't reveal anything that looks like a facility for doing
> > that, but I figured it was worth asking the list:  Is there a way to
> > change the name of an existing branch tag?
> >
> > Thanks in advance...
> >
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