I was faced with the following situation with the codebase on a Fossil repository: 1) The codebase has a single branch, the "trunk", with a number of check-ins (let's say 80). 2) The latest 5 check-ins, including the trunk's leaf, turned out to be a code dead-end. I wish to make it a closed branch (let's call it "useless"), starting from 5 check-ins ago.
Using the Web interface, I successfully managed to assign the latest 5 check-ins to the new "useless" branch and separate it from the "trunk", and keep the 6th latest and older check-ins in the "trunk". To this effect, on the web interface I 1) select the appropriate base check-in in the project's Timeline page; 2) click the "edit" link under the check-in's Overview section; 3) select the background color and check the option "propagate color to descendants"; 4) cancel tag "trunk", cancel special tag "branch", and check "Make this check-in the start of a new branch" and type in name of the intended branch, "useless". 5) Click "Apply changes". :-) While this certainly solves my problem, I haven't managed to achieve the same result with the command line interface. When I type $ fossil branch new useless [checkin-id] it creates a new branch from the indicated checkin-id, but it maintains its descendants in the "trunk" branch. So, is there an option to the "fossil branch new" CLI command to assign the descentants of a certain checkin-id to the branch while also removing the previous name of branch and tag? Thank you in advance. -- João Batista
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