Re: Re-assigning Head...

[Larry Jones]

Stanley Shivell writes:
> 
> Is there anyway to "Re-assign" the Head of tree in a repository.

Not really.

> Example:   Say we just spent 3 years developing code on head and making
> branches here and there off of head... and then all of a sudden... we
> decided that we want to move the "Head" of tree onto a Production Release
> branch  that is a branch off of a branch off of a branch   from like 3 years
> ago.

What you can do instead is to move the desired stuff to the trunk with a
merge:

        cvs up -jHEAD -jPROD_BRANCH
        cvs ci -m'Replace HEAD with PROD_BRANCH'

You may want to create a new branch before you do that in case you
decide you want to continue development of what used to be the head of
the trunk.

-Larry Jones

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