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Re: changing the head to another branch


From: Larry Jones
Subject: Re: changing the head to another branch
Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2006 15:45:36 -0500 (EST)

Urs Thuermann writes:
> 
> Is it possible to change which branch should be the head?

Only by completely redesigning and rewriting CVS and/or RCS.

> This means, when you work on the 1.3.2.x branch, for every
> operation the server has to compute the current revision by starting
> at 1.10 then applying the diffs down to 1.3 and the applying the diffs
> to the most recent revision of the 1.3.2.x branch.  I imagine this may
> take considerable time if you have a large project with a couple
> hundred or even more files.

That's why you should keep your main development on the trunk.

-Larry Jones

You just can't ever be too careful. -- Calvin




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