RE: Tagging the head of a branch and branching off a branch

[Fouts Christopher (6452)]

"The name of a branch refers to the head revision on the branch, so:"

I see... This makes sense now. Thanks.

-chris

-----Original Message-----
From: Larry Jones [mailto:address@hidden 
Sent: Thursday, April 01, 2004 1:48 PM
To: Fouts Christopher (6452)
Cc: address@hidden
Subject: Re: Tagging the head of a branch and branching off a branch


"Fouts Christopher (6452)" writes:
> 
> I have a repository called sample, which I tagged as follows...
>       > cvs rtag -r HEAD t_REL sample
> 
> I then created a branch of the files with this tag...
>       > cvs rtag -r t_REL -b b_DEV sample
> 
> Correct?

Yep.

> How do I now tag the HEAD of the b_DEV branch, and subsequently create 
> a branches from it, say, b_DEV_CF and b_DEV_JS???

The name of a branch refers to the head revision on the branch, so:

        cvs rtag -r b_DEV b_REL sample
        cvs rtag -r b_REL -b b_DEV_CF sample
        cvs rtag -r b_REL -b b_DEV_JS sample

-Larry Jones

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