Re: Move branch tags on certain files instead of merging

[Larry Jones]

Andreas Otte writes:
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Please do not post MIME and/or HTML encrypted messages to the list.
Plain text only, PLEASE!

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And base64 encoding plain text is just silly -- all it does is make it
unreadable and take up more space.

> But new feature development happens on the trunk and at some point I
> decide to move some features (which are in files that are not changed in
> the customers version) to the version of the customer. I could do a
> merge against the trunk on that files, but I don't want to do that,
> because that would create more changed files on the branch (with branch
> revisions) which are not really different from the trunk. Instead I
> would like to "move" the new trunk revision on to the branch.  Is this
> in any way possible? For example by moving the internal (unused) branch
> tag for that file to the other version and then do an update on that
> file on the branch?

Exactly.  You can use "cvs tag -FBb" on those specific files to move the
branch tag from the old revision to the current revision (or whatever
revision you want).

-Larry Jones

I told her to expect you to deny everything. -- Calvin