Re: Updating third party software

[Jenn Vesperman]

On Tue, 2002-10-15 at 03:14, Kaz Kylheku wrote:

> The problem with the vendor branch is that it starts at version 1.1 of every
> file (1.1.1.1 really, but that's an internal detail). You cannot start
> a vendor branch somewhere halfway up your trunk, so vendor branching is
> useless for the case when someone takes some release of your code and
> becomes a patch; you then have to track their patches on a real branch,
> the methods that you describe.

cvs import -b (vendor branch id) allows you to branch off at a later
point.

(me, I'd like -b to accept a tagname. Maybe I should try to write a
patch....)


Jenn V.
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