Re: How does one change the identity of the HEAD (trunk) ?

[Donald Sharp]

Why not just merge the changes on branch ERASER into main?

In the end what difference does it truly matter what branch
you develop on?

donald
On Thu, Sep 19, 2002 at 08:37:38PM +0100, Julian Seward wrote:
> 
> Greetings.
> 
> We have a project (valgrind) in which development proceeded
> in the normal way on the trunk.  After a while we made a branch 
> (VALGRIND_1_0_BRANCH) from which to do stable releases, and
> that all works fine.
> 
> The plan was to continue development on the trunk (HEAD), as
> you'd normally do.  Problem is, another branch (ERASER) appeared, 
> and all interesting development happened there instead.
> 
> Now what we want to do is to throw away, in effect, the current HEAD
> and turn the interesting ERASER branch into the HEAD.  
> 
> How can we do this?  
> 
> I already looked at 
> 
>    the cvs faq-o-matic, entry #36, 
>    http://ccvs.cvshome.org/fom//cache/36.html
>    which describes how to change the name of a branch,
>    but my situation involves throwing away a branch and replacing
>    it with a different one.
> 
>    I also looked at the section entitled
>     "Some real-life problems (with solutions)"
>    at http://cvsbook.red-bean.com/cvsbook.html
>    and various other parts of this doc.  
> 
> >From neither of them was it possible to see how to do this,
> nor whether it is even possible.
> 
> Can anyone offer guidance here?  We are prepared to mash around 
> our repo contents by hand; whatever it takes.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> J
> 
> 
> 
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