Re: Checking out an old file, modifying and checking it back in

[Todd Denniston]

Res Pons wrote, On 09/15/2008 04:48 PM:
> Hi all
>  
> If I check out an old revision of a file, modify, 
>  and check it back in, 
>  does the revision automatically branch or does it 
>  move to the top of the stack as the latest revision?
>  
> e.g.
>  
> fileA current revision 1.50
> fileA old revision to be modified 1.33.  
>  
> I would like to check out fileA rev 1.33, 
>  make changes and check it back into CVS. 
>  Would it be checked in as 1.33.1 or 1.51 automatically?
>  

neither.
because you have checked out with a 'sticky tag'[1] of a version, i.e., you did
cvs checkout -r1.33 fileA
CVS will not let you commit any changes to that checkout.
If you want a branch, you need to do a branch tag.
If you want to replace the contents from rev 1.50 with the contents of 1.33 
into 1.51, (from the link below[1])
cvs checkout fileA
#then either
cvs checkout -p -r1.33 fileA > fileA
#or IIRC
cvs update -j1.50 -j1.33 fileA

cvs commit



[1] http://ximbiot.com/cvs/manual/cvs-1.11.23/cvs_4.html#SEC53


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Todd Denniston
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